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Note on Excitation Theories

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Gaylord Young*
Affiliation:
The University of Chicago*

Abstract

Offner's demonstration of the excitation time equivalence, for all currents, of the theories of Hill and Rashevsky is here extended to a more general case which includes both. It is found that any system of this general type may be replaced by an equivalent one of the Rashevsky type, thus effecting considerable simplification in the mathematical detail.

Type
Original Paper
Copyright
Copyright © 1937 The Psychometric Society

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Footnotes

*

The author is indebted to Mr. Alvin Weinberg of the Dept. of Physics, University of Chicago, for verifying the computations.

References

(1) Unpublished work of Mr. E. A. Offner, Dept. of Physiology, University of Chicago.

(2) Rashevsky, N., 1933. Protoplasma, V. 20, 42.

(3) Hill, A. V., 1936. Proc. Roy. Soy. London, B, V. 119, 305. Here given in different notation.

(4) MacMillan, W. D., Dynamics of Rigid Bodies, pp. 413-434.