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DRAFT CHAPTERS OF HOPED FOR BOOK ENTITLED "CLASSICAL RELAXATION PHENOMENOLOGY"

Because of incompatibilty issues between MathType and MS Word most of these chapters have had to be completely rewritten at least once. I have been in
contact with MathType several times and they have identified MS Word as the culprit (surprise!). I have helped them slightly but the best they can do is
encourage users to complain to Microsoft because they state on a help page that MS only listens to users, not developers. But the number of users of
MathType is a tiny fraction of the total number of users of Word and it has been claimed that MS could not care less about such small markets (consistent
with my experience).
There are two issues at this time (4/17):

(1) Mathtype equations may be displaced above and/or below text lines. This problem seemed to emerge after MS changed its file format from .doc to
     .docx. For Word versions 2010 or later this problem can be reduced by saving .docx formatted files as .doc files, and editing them as such, or by
      refusing to use Word versions 2010. It is possible that the latest Mathtype 6.9d (2/18) corrects or alleviates this problem.

(2) Equations that appear in the document as one thing [say y = x+1] appear as something else when opened in Mathtype [say y = exp(x)]. This is an
     incompatibility between Mathtype and Word storage formats (separate from the .doc and .docx issue). However every equation that appears
     within Mathtype will also appear elsewhere in the document as the same equation and vice versa, so all is not lost. It is also known that MS Word
     Autosave should be disabled in older versions to reduce (but not eliminate) this problem. MS's "solution" in newer Word vesions is to not make
     Autosave the default setting - but always check this. The severity of this problem could (from my limited experience) increase with the number of
     MathType equations - my best solution to date is to use, as much as possible, the Word Insert Symbol for Greek letters and simple algebraic equations.
     As a precaution I have also increased my Win7 virtual memory to 8X the installed memory on my PC rather than the default 2X (and made the
     minimum and maximum values the same to prevent Windows spending time making up its mind).

Largely because of problem (2) typos may still be found in all drafts, including final ones. Beware. On or about 4/1/18 this page may be removed
from this site.

Chapter Two             Electrical Relaxation FINAL DRAFT © 2018 Ian M Hodge
                                 This originates from an earlier and much less detailed unpublished paper from the 1970s that was distributed world wide by someone else
                                 (with good intentions but without my knowledge or permission). I could not find the time then to check the paper so did not submit it anywhere.
                                 A link to an edited version is HERE (the editing corrects detected errors in the original and changes the original phase convention). This edited
                                  version has never been submitted for publication because all of the references are not recent. The references also need checking in this draft.