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Like a river, the progress of science has a tendency to run tast or
slow. Once the water meets a dam, it may stop for a while, but
eventually it will flow over the top and run fast again. In
scientific research, a breakthrough to overcome a simile>r
barrier is often made by a small number of scientists, or perhaps
by a single person of special creativity, extraordinary talent and
unusual perseverance. Through such individuals science can proceed
in great strides. No one can deny that Professor Kazuo Takayanagi
is one of these special individuals who have played a leading role
in the field of atomic and molecular physics, as well as space
physics. This book is dedicated to Professor Takayanagi on the
occasion of his retirement from the Institute of Space and
Astronautical Science. Professor Takayanagi was born in 1926 and
grew up in Tomakomai in Hokkaido, the northern island of Japan. In
his boyhood, he was interested in natural sciences, particularly
astronomy. On 5th February, 1943, when he was attending secondary
school, a solar eclipse was seen in his town. He organized a group
of students from his school to observe the eclipse. He still
remembers the scene: it grew so dark during the eclipse that two
stars, Vega and Arcturus, could be seen. After graduation from the
University of Tokyo in 1948, he entered the graduate school there.
A variety of plasmas include molecules rather than only ions or
atoms. Examples are ionospheres of the Earth and other planets,
stellar atmospheres, gaseous discharges for use in various devices
and processes, and fusion plasmas in the edge region. This book
describes the role of molecules in those plasmas by showing
elementary collision processes involving those molecules.
A variety of plasmas include molecules rather than only ions or
atoms. Examples are ionospheres of the Earth and other planets,
stellar atmospheres, gaseous discharges for use in various devices
and processes, and fusion plasmas in the edge region. This book
describes the role of molecules in those plasmas by showing
elementary collision processes involving those molecules. All
possible processes are presented both for electron and ion
collisions with the molecules. On the basis of the accumulated
knowledge in atomic and molecular physics, a compact but
informative description is given for each process. Specific
emphasis is placed on the feature which application people often
tend to overlook.
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