Introduction to plasma physics: with space and laboratory applications
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Cambridge, UK; New York
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Cambridge University Press
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c2005
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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x, 452 p. : ill
GENERAL NOTES
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Includes bibliographical references and index
NOTES PERTAINING TO TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
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D.A. Gurnett and A. Bhattacharjee
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction -- Characteristic parameters of a plasma -- Single particle motions -- Waves in a cold plasma -- Kinetic theory and the moment equations -- Magnetohydrodynamics -- Discontinuities and shock waves -- Electrostatic waves in a hot unmagnetized plasma -- Waves in a hot magnetized plasma -- Nonlinear effects -- Collisional processes