Based on a course taught at Princeton University, this textbook offers undergraduate students a detailed introduction to the field. It assumes no previous knowledge of plasma physics, and is based on the authors' years of research in the laboratory.
Introduction to Plasma Physics
β Scribed by B. M. Smirnov
- Publisher
- Mir Publishers
- Year
- 1977
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 184
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Table of Contents
Front Cover
Title Pae
Preface
Contents
1 Plasma in Nature and in Laboratory Systems
2 Statistics of Weakly Ionized Gas
3 The Ideal Plasma
4 Elementary Processes in Plasma
5 Formation and Decomposition of Charged Particles in Weakly Ionized Gas
6 Physical Kinetics of Gas and Plasma
7 Transport Phenomena in Weakly Ionized Gas
8 Transport of Charged Particles in Weakly Ionized Gas
9 Plasma in External Fields
10 Waves in a Plasma
11 Radiation in Gas
12 Plasma of Ihe Upper Atmosphere
Appendices
Bibliography
Index
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
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