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cond-mat.stat-mech2006
Radiative transfer in a spherical, emitting, absorbing and anisotropically scattering medium
Michael J. Caola
The atmospheres of planets (including Earth) and the outer layers of stars have often been treated in radiative transfer as plane-parallel media, instead of spherical shells, which…
cond-mat.stat-mech2004
DNA and the double helix: statistical equilibrium and Neumann's principle
Michael J. Caola
Neumann's principle (that the symmetry of a crystal measurement cannot be lower than that of its point-group) is a corner- stone of crystallography: were it false, then the techniq…