Technical Physics -- December 2002 Volume 47, Issue 12, pp. 1487-1586 THEORETICAL AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS Method of Integral Equation in the Theory of Weak-Guiding Inhomogeneous Optical Waveguides L. I. Sotskaya and A. B. Sotskii pp. 1487-1494 Full Text: PDF (100 kB) ATOMS, SPECTRA, RADIATION Pressure-Shock-Controlled Pulsed Molecular Beams G. N. Makarov pp. 1495-1500 Full Text: PDF (70 kB) GASES AND LIQUIDS The Shape of a Drop in a Constant Electric Field A. A. Shutov pp. 1501-1508 Full Text: PDF (132 kB) GAS DISCHARGES, PLASMA Study of the Reverse Current Range in a Knudsen Diode with Surface Ionization under Overneutralized Conditions in the Presence of Electron Emission from the Collector: Part I. Large Electrode Spacing V. I. Babanin, V. I. Sitnov, A. V. Solov'ev, and A. Ya. Énder pp. 1509-1517 Full Text: PDF (106 kB) Study of the Reverse Current Range in a Knudsen Diode with Surface Ionization under Overneutralized Conditions in the Presence of Electron Emission from the Collector: Part II. Small Electrode Spacing V. I. Babanin, V. I. Sitnov, A. V. Solov'ev, and A. Ya. Énder pp. 1518-1523 Full Text: PDF (77 kB) Parameters of Electronic Detonation in Solid Dielectrics Yu. N. Vershinin pp. 1524-1528 Full Text: PDF (69 kB) SOLIDS Fractal Cluster Model of Spalling G. G. Savenkov pp. 1529-1532 Full Text: PDF (56 kB) Mechanical, Structural, and Spectroscopic Properties of C70 Fullerite Phases Produced under High Pressure and Shear V. D. Blank, K. V. Gogolinsky, V. N. Denisov, V. A. Ivdenko, B. N. Mavrin, N. R. Serebryanaya, and S. N. Sulyanov pp. 1533-1537 Full Text: PDF (105 kB) Fracture of Spheroplastic under Static and Dynamic Stressing S. A. Atroshenko, S. I. Krivosheev, Yu. V. Petrov, A. A. Utkin, and G. D. Fedorovskiy pp. 1538-1542 Full Text: PDF (279 kB) On the Mechanism of Fibril Rotation at the Early Stages of Amorphous–Crystalline Polymer Reorientation B. M. Ginzburg, N. Sultonov, and A. A. Shepelevskii pp. 1543-1546 Full Text: PDF (87 kB) OPTICS, QUANTUM ELECTRONICS Optical-to-Acoustic Energy Conversion Efficiency upon Interaction of Pulsed Laser Radiation with a Liquid: II. Conversion Efficiency Measurement by Holographic Interferometry upon Acoustooptic Interaction G. V. Ostrovskaya pp. 1547-1553 Full Text: PDF (309 kB) RADIOPHYSICS Transformation of Plane Wave Fields Due to a Parameter Jump in a Free Magnetodielectric Layer O. N. Rybin, N. I. Slipchenko, and L. N. Shul'ga pp. 1554-1560 Full Text: PDF (84 kB) Open Resonators for Low Dielectric Loss Measurements S. N. Vlasov, E. V. Koposova, S. E. Myasnikova, and V. V. Parshin pp. 1561-1569 Full Text: PDF (118 kB) SURFACES, ELECTRON AND ION EMISSION New Approach to Surface Ionization and Drift-Tube Spectroscopy of Organic Molecules O. A. Bannykh, K. B. Povarova, and V. I. Kapustin pp. 1570-1575 Full Text: PDF (84 kB) EXPERIMENTAL INSTRUMENTS AND TECHNIQUES Visualization of the Langmuir–Blodgett Film Structure in Liquid-Crystal Cells B. N. Klimov and E. G. Glukhovskoy pp. 1576-1579 Full Text: PDF (442 kB) BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS Generation of High-Power Electron Beams in Magnetron Guns with Cold Secondary-Emission Cathodes A. N. Dovbnya, V. V. Zakutin, N. G. Reshetnyak, V. P. Romas'ko, Yu. Ya. Volkolupov, and M. A. Krasnogolovets pp. 1580-1583 Full Text: PDF (52 kB) Long-Lived Plasmoids Produced in Humid Air as Analogues of Ball Lightning A. I. Egorov and S. I. Stepanov pp. 1584-1586 Full Text: PDF (206 kB)