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1 online resource |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Publisherâ#x80;#x99;s Foreword; Vita; Special Preface; Preface; Table of Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1 Origin and scope of the subject; 1.2 Orders of magnitude; 1.3 Fundamental equations; Chapter 2: Electrodynamics; 2.1 Fields and sources; 2.2 The field of a moving point charge; 2.3 The techniques of special relativity; Chapter 3: Ä#x8C;erenkov and Gyro Radiation; 3.1 Uniform rectilinear motion in a vacuum; 3.2 Ä#x8C;erenkov radiation; 3.3 Gyro radiation; Chapter 4: Dynamical Motion of a Point Charge; 4.1 Equations of motion |
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4.2 Non-relativistic motion in simple special cases4.3 Non-relativistic motion in a slowly varying field: introduction; 4.4 Non-relativistic motion in a slowly varying field: analysis; 4.5 Some examples of relativistic motion; 4.6 The self-force; Chapter 5: Waves in an Ionized Gas: Magneto-Ionic Theory; 5.1 Macroscopic description of plasma; 5.2 Collisionless plasma without magnetostatic field; 5.3 Collisionless magneto-ionic theory; 5.4 The inclusion of the motion of positive ions; 5.5 The inclusion of partial pressures; 5.6 The inclusion of collisions; Chapter 6: Plasma Streams |
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6.1 Instability and growth6.2 A single stream; 6.3 Two streams; Chapter 7: Boltzmannâ#x80;#x99;s Equation; 7.1 Phase space and Liouville's theorem; 7.2 The Boltzmann-Vlasov equations; 7.3 Plasma in thermal equilibrium; 7.4 Hydrodynamic variables and equations; 7.5 The solution of Boltzmann's equation in given fields: Jeans's theore; 7.6 Examples of Jeans's theorem; 7.7 A relativistic formulation of Boltzmann's equation; Chapter 8: Waves in Ionized Gases: Kinetic Theory; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 The response of a plasma to longitudinal fields; 8.3 Plasma oscillations and Landau damping |
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8.4 The initial value problem8.5 Further discussion of Landau damping; 8.6 Transverse waves; 8.7 Maxwellian distributions; 8.8 The effect of positive ions. Ion waves; 8.9 A relativistic treatment; Chapter 9: Waves in Ionized Gases: Kinetic Theory (continued); 9.1 Solution of Boltzmann's equation in an external magnetic field; 9.2 Electrostatic waves in a Maxwellian plasma; 9.3 The conductivity tensor for a Maxwellian plasma; 9.4 General distributions; 9.5 Effect of collisions; Chapter 10: Microinstabilities; 10.1 Introduction |
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10.2 Longitudinal oscillations in a field-free plasma. The Penrose stability criterion10.3 Unstable transverse waves in a field-free plasma; 10.4 Electrostatic instabilities in the presence of a magnetic field; 10.5 Unstable transverse waves in a magnetized plasma; 10.6 Some other microinstabilities; 10.7 Stability of isotropic monotonic distributions; Chapter 11: The Derivation of Magnetohydrodynamics; 11.1 Introduction; 11.2 The adiabatic approximation for collision-dominated gases; 11.3 The adiabatic approximation for a collisionless plasma in a strong magnetic field |
| Summary |
First Published in 2018. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company |
| Notes |
"Originally published in 1969 by Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc.; Published 1990 by Westview Press"--Copyright page |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 16, 2018) |
| Subject |
Plasma (Ionized gases)
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Electrodynamics.
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SCIENCE -- Physics -- Electricity.
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SCIENCE -- Physics -- Electromagnetism.
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Electrodynamics
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Plasma (Ionized gases)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Dougherty, J. P. (John P.), author.
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| ISBN |
9780429493928 |
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0429493924 |
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9780429973550 |
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0429973551 |
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