Fundamentals of Plasma Physics

Fundamentals of Plasma Physics Paul M. Bellan ...

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1 Basic concepts Preface xi 1.1 History of the term “plasma” 1.2 Brief history of plasma physics 1.3 Plasma parameters 1.4 Exam ...

Preface This text is based on a course I have taught for many years to first year graduate and senior-level undergraduate studen ...

xii Preface The book is organized as follows: Chapters 1-3 lay out the foundation of the subject. Chapter 1 provides a brief int ...

Preface xiii with a discussion on magnetohydrodynamicflows such as occur in arcs and jets. Chap- ter 10 examines the stability o ...

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1 Basic concepts 1.1 History of the term “plasma” In the mid-19th century the Czech physiologist Jan Evangelista Purkinje introd ...

2 Chapter 1. Basic concepts empirically developed Russiantokamakconfiguration began producing plasmas with pa- rameters far bett ...

1.4 Examples of plasmas 3 large quantities of positrons. In addition to the above activities there have been continuing investig ...

4 Chapter 1. Basic concepts in the range from 10’s of eV totens of thousandsof eV. In typical magnetic confinement devices (e.g. ...

1.5 Logical framework of plasma physics 5 Fig.1.1. In principle, the time evolution of a plasma can be calculatedas follows: gi ...

6 Chapter 1. Basic concepts (c) assumptions about space (e.g., assume the scale length of the phenomenon under consideration is ...

1.6 Debye shielding 7 occurred in our initial derivation of the framework. Somewhat separate from the study of Vlasov, two-fluid ...

8 Chapter 1. Basic concepts wherenσ 0 is a constant. It is important to emphasize that the Boltzmann relationresults from the as ...

1.7 Quasi-neutrality 9 neutrality means that ∑ σ=i,enσ^0 qσ= 0causing the terms independent ofφto cancel in Eq.(1.4) which thus ...