The framework of plasma physics
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The framework of plasma physics
（Frontiers in physics, 100）（Advanced book program）
Westview Press, 2004
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Institute for Space–Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University宇宙地球研1
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"A member of the Perseus Books Group."
Updated ed. of 1987
Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-319) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Plasma physics is a necessary part of our understanding of stellar and galactic structure. It determines the magnetospheric environment of the earth and other planets it forms the research frontier in such areas as nuclear fusion, advanced accelerators, and high power lasers and its applications to various industrial processes (such as computer chip manufacture) are rapidly increasing. It is thus a subject with a long list of scientific and technological applications. This book provides the scientific background for understanding such applications, but it emphasizes something else: the intrinsic scientific interest of the plasma state. It attempts to develop an understanding of this state, and of plasma behaviour, as thoroughly and systematically as possible. The book was written with the graduate student in mind, but most of the material would also fit into an upper-level undergraduate course.
Table of Contents
Editor's Foreword -- Preface -- The Nature of Plasma -- Charged Particle Motion -- Fluid Description of a Plasma -- Waves in a Cold Plasma -- MHD and the Drift Model -- Vlasov Description of a Plasma -- Binary Collisions -- Collisional Transport -- Turbulent Transport -- Description of a Relativistic Plasma -- Derivation of Balescu-Lenard operator
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