A study was conducted on healthy subjects to determine whether voluntary ballistic wrist flexion movements are influenced by immediately preceding conditioning of the forearm muscles. Single rapid wrist flexion movements were made in response to an auditory "Go" signal. Rectified surface EMG was recorded from wrist flexors and extensors, and joint position was measured by a goniometer. The move...

In generic Hamiltonian systems with a mixed phase space chaotic transport may be directed and ballistic rather than diffusive. We investigate one particular model showing this behaviour, namely a spatially periodic billiard chain in which electrons move under the influence of a perpendicular magnetic field. We analyze the phase-space structure and derive an explicit expression for the chaotic t...

Using a modified spin-wave approach, we show that in the presence of an inhomogeneous magnetic field or an in-plane inhomogeneous electric field a mesoscopic antiferromagnetic Heisenberg ring with integer spin ~i.e., a Haldane-gap system! exhibits a persistent circulating spin current. Due to quantum fluctuations the current has a finite limit on the order of (2gmB)c/L at zero temperature, prov...

In this note, a theoretical model for analyzing of normal penetration of the ogive – nose projectile into metallic targets is presented .The failure is assumed to be asymmetry petalling and the analysis is performed by using the energy balance and work done .The work done consist of the work required for plastic deformation Wp, the work for transferring the matter to new position Wd and the wor...

We study a particle moving in R2 under a constant (external) force and bouncing off a periodic array of convex domains (scatterers); the latter must satisfy a standard ‘finite horizon’ condition to prevent ‘ballistic’ (collision-free) motion. This model is known to physicists as Galton board (it is also identical to a periodic Lorentz gas). Previous heuristic and experimental studies have sugge...

The current noise of a voltage biased interacting quantum wire adiabatically connected to metallic leads is computed in the presence of an impurity in the wire. We find that in the weak backscattering limit the Fano factor characterizing the ratio between noise and backscattered current crucially depends on the noise frequency omega relative to the ballistic frequency vF/gL, where vF is the Fer...

Motion of particles in many systems exhibits a mixture between periods of random diffusive-like events and ballistic-like motion. In many cases, such systems exhibit strong anomalous diffusion, where low-order moments 〈|x(t)|(q)〉 with q below a critical value q(c) exhibit diffusive scaling while for q>q(c) a ballistic scaling emerges. The mixed dynamics constitutes a theoretical challenge since...

The authors replicated and extended results from the gunfight paradigm (A. Welchman, J. Stanley, M. Schomers, R. Miall, & H. Bulthoff, 2010a) in which participants moved faster when reacting to the perceived initiation of an opponent compared to initiating an action themselves. In addition to replicating these movement time effects, the authors found that time to peak velocity, peak velocity, a...

in this paper, the range doppler algorithm (rda) for synthetic aperture radar moving on a ballistic trajectory is presented. the 3-dimension acceleration and non-uniform trajectory cause decreases in efficiency of conventional imaging algorithms. in this paper, the analytical expression for the 2-d signal spectrum for ballistic trajectory using taylor series expansion and series reversion is de...