Waves in Plasmas

Name: Waves in Plasmas
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ISBN: 9780883188590

ISBN-10: 0883188597

ISBN-13: 9780883188590

Edition: 1992

Authors: Thomas H. Stix

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"Blurb & Contents" "The reader is treated to constantly refreshing and engaging commentary and opinion that always informs....As she depicts them, the problems of the universe are always fascinating and, most of all, they are alive and compelling." David DeVorkin, Sky & Telescope Virginia Trimble offers readers a fascinating and accessible tour of the stars. An astronomer with shared appointments in California and Maryland, the author ranges over a large portion of the universe as she discusses the search for life on other planets, how galaxies form, why stars explode and die, and the nature of the elusive dark matter in the universe. She also explains the astronomical significance of…

Book details

List price: $109.99
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
Publication date: 12/1/1992
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 566
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 4.796



Preface



Wave Normal Surfaces



Waves in a Cold Uniform Plasma



Causality, Acoustic Waves, and Simple Drift Waves



Energy Flow and Accessibility



Kruskal-Schwarzchild Solutions for a Bounded Plasma



Oscillations in Bounded Plasmas



Plasma Models with Discrete Structure



Longitudinal Oscillations in a Plasma of Continuous Structure



Absolute and Convective Instability



Susceptibilities for a Hot Plasma in a Magnetic Field



Waves in Magnetized Uniform Media



Effects on Waves from Weak Collisions



Reflection, Absorption, and Mode Conversion



Nonuniform Plasmas



The Straight-Trajectory Approximation



Quasilinear Diffusion



Quasilinear Diffusion in a Magnetized Plasma



Bounce-Averaged Quasilinear Diffusion


Bibliography


Index