Basic plasma physics /
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| Imprint: | Amsterdam ; New York : North-Holland Pub. ; New York, N.Y. : Sole distributors for the U.S.A. and Canada, Elsevier Science Pub., 1983-1984. |
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| Description: | 2 v. illus. 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Handbook of plasma physics v. 1-2 Handbook of plasma physics v. 1-2. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/613949 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- MHD description of plasma
- Linear wave propagation in ideal magnetohydrodynamics
- Kinetic theory of waves
- Theory of fluctuations in plasma
- Propagation and mode-conversion for waves in nonuniform plasmas
- The variational principle for problems of ideal magnetohydrodynamic stability
- Kinetic waves and instabilities in a uniform plasma
- Instabilities in inhomogeneous plasma
- Resistive instabilities and field line reconnection
- Wave-particle and wave-wave interaction
- Collapse and self-focusing of Langmuir waves
- Particle simulation
- Author index
- Subject index
