Introduction to plasma physics : with space and laboratory applications /
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| Author / Creator: | Gurnett, Donald A. |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005. |
| Description: | x, 452 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5640933 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Characteristic parameters of a plasma
- 2.1. Number density and temperature
- 2.2. Debye length
- 2.3. Plasma frequency
- 2.4. Cyclotron frequency
- 2.5. Collision frequency
- 2.6. Number of electrons per Debye cube
- 2.7. The de Broglie wavelength and quantum effects
- 2.8. Representative plasma parameters
- 3. Single particle motions
- 3.1. Motion in a static uniform magnetic field
- 3.2. Motion in perpendicular electric and magnetic fields
- 3.3. Gradient and curvature drifts
- 3.4. Motion in a magnetic mirror field
- 3.5. Motion in a time varying magnetic field
- 3.6. Adiabatic invariants
- 3.7. The Hamiltonian method
- 3.8. Chaotic orbits
- 4. Waves in a cold plasma
- 4.1. Fourier representation of waves
- 4.2. General form of the dispersion relation
- 4.3. Waves in a cold uniform unmagnetized plasma
- 4.4. Waves in a cold uniform magnetized plasma
- 4.5. Ray paths in inhomogeneous plasmas
- 5. Kinetic theory and the moment equations
- 5.1. The distribution function
- 5.2. The Boltzmann and Vlasov equations
- 5.3. Solutions based on constants of the motion
- 5.4. The moment equations
- 5.5. Electron and ion pressure waves
- 5.6. Collisional drag force
- 5.7. Ambipolar diffusion
- 6. Magnetohydrodynamics
- 6.1. The basic equations of MHD
- 6.2. Magnetic pressure
- 6.3. Magnetic field convection and diffusion
- 6.4. The energy equation
- 6.5. Magnetohydrodynamic waves
- 6.6. Static MHD equilibrium
- 6.7. MHD stability
- 6.8. Magnetic reconnection
- 7. Discontinuities and shock waves
- 7.1. The MHD jump conditions
- 7.2. Classification of discontinuities
- 7.3. Shock waves
- 8. Electrostatic waves in a hot unmagnetized plasma
- 8.1. The Vlasov approach
- 8.2. The Landau approach
- 8.3. The plasma dispersion function
- 8.4. The dispersion relation for a multi-component plasma
- 8.5. Stability
- 9. Waves in a hot magnetized plasma
- 9.1. Linearization of the Vlasov equation
- 9.2. Electrostatic waves
- 9.3. Electromagnetic waves
- 10. Non-linear effects
- 10.1. Quasi-linear theory
- 10.2. Stationary non-linear electrostatic potentials
- 11. Collisional processes
- 11.1. Binary Coulomb collisions
- 11.2. Importance of small-angle collisions
- 11.3. The Fokker-Planck equation
- 11.4. Conductivity of a fully ionized plasma
- 11.5. Collision operator for Maxwellian distributions of electrons and ions
- Appendix A. Symbols
- Appendix B. Vector differential operators
- Appendix C. Vector calculus identities
- Index
