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Research Memoranda

The research memorandum series, a product of RAND from 1948 to 1973, included working papers meant to report current results of RAND research to appropriate audiences.

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Jan 1, 1948

Evaluation of Materials in the Elasto-Plastic Range

A discussion of methods of stress-strain analysis as applied to the design of supersonic vehicles, with a presentation of supporting experimental data.
Jan 1, 1948

Soviet and American Economic Power During the Next Decade

Stephen Enke
Jan 1, 1948

Particle histories for plane slabs.

A preliminary account of work on the application of sampling techniques to the problem of determining the transmission of radiation through shields in which an attempt is made to compromise between a large number of easily calculated histories and a ...

Herman Kahn
Jan 1, 1948

A circular probability grid

A tabular presentation of the number of cells in each circle of the probability grid. The value of the integral over each circle of cells and the grid having cells of equal probability are also given....

H. H. Germond
Jan 1, 1948

Ville's Example of a Game Without a Strategic Saddle-Point

A demonstration of the validity of Jean Ville's qualification of the von Neumann theorem on strategic saddle-points.

Melvin Dresher, J. C. C. McKinsey
Jan 1, 1948

Effects of Source and Shadow Shield Geometry on the Scattering of Gamma Rays

Exact calculations for two extreme cases of the geometrical effects of the size of shadow shield and source on the intensity of gamma rays scattered into a receiver.

Milton S. Plesset, Cecil Hastings, S. T. Cohen
Jan 1, 1948

Tests of the Randomness of Digits

Results of four methods of examining a million digits produced by the random digit generator, to ensure the randomness of the numbers for the user of random numbers in common types of sampling inquiries.

Bernice B. Brown
Jan 1, 1948

Bremsstrahlung correction to transmission of gamma rays through thick media

A study which determines the magnitude of Bremsstrahlung for beams of * radiation with intial energies of 20 mc* and 10 mc* passing through a heavy element shield....

S. T. Cohen, E. H. Plesset
Jan 1, 1948

An elucidation of Stone's solution for a slightly yawning supersonic cone

A physical interpretation of the mathematical analysis of Stone. Expressions for the flow characteristics in the conical field are scrutinized....

G. B. W. Young
Jan 1, 1948

Elastic scattering of neutrons

A preliminary study of the problem of the transmission of neutrons through plane slabs under conditions of elastic scattering and absorption....

Herman Kahn
Jan 1, 1948

A Game Theoretic Study of the Tactics of Area Defense

Descriptions with solutions in mathematical terms of several restricted area defense models which simulate the problem of area defense by interceptors against attacking bombers.

Merrill M. Flood, Leonard J. Savage
Jan 1, 1948

Representation by Sums of Separable Functions

A presentation of a general method which decomposes a function of two variables into a sum of separable functions. An application of the method in the approximation sense to a numerical example.

Oliver Alfred Gross

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