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Kinetic Theory of Plasma Waves - Homogeneous Plasmas (Hardcover)
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Kinetic Theory of Plasma Waves - Homogeneous Plasmas (Hardcover)
Series: International Series of Monographs on Physics, 96
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The book deals with the propagation and absorption of high
frequency waves in plasmas (hot, fully ionized gases). Research in
this field is very active in controlled fusion research, i.e. the
quest for energy from nuclear reactions similar to those going on
within the sun, and in astrophysics, i.e. the study of space
plasmas in the earth ionosphere, stars, and galaxies. The text
collects in a structured and self-contained way the basic knowledge
on the broad and varied behaviour of plasma waves, adopting the
microscopic kinetic description of the plasma as unifying
principle. The internal coherence of the theory is explicity
stressed, and very interesting physical phenomena peculiar to
plasmas, such as collisionless damping of waves, the development of
stochasticity in the interactions of charged particles with
electromagnetic waves, and nonlinear interactions between waves,
are discussed in detail. The most common and useful approximations
used in solving practical problems are derived as special cases
from the more general kinetic approach, thereby clarifying their
meaning and domain of applicability. This exposition should be
useful to plasma physicists both as an introduction and a reference
to this field of research. Because of its multi-disciplinary
aspects it might also be of interest to people specializing in
kinetic theory, classical electromagnetism, or classical mechanics,
as a nontrivial example of application of the methods of these
fields to the unconventional plasma medium.
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