tension
magnetic, 268
thermal force, 59
third adiabatic invariant, 89
thruster, 290
TM mode, 216
tokamak, 285, 333
topology
minimum energy, 273
torque, 286
trapped particle
in mirror, 87
tritium, 296
twist and writhe, 351, 356
two-fluid equations
derivation of, 36
underdense, 197
unperturbed orbit, 232
untrapped particle
in mirror, 87
upper hybrid frequency, 186
vacuum magnetic field, 265
vector calculus identities, 515
vector potential, 320
relation toflux, 97
velocity
Alfven, 132, 183
bounce-averaged, 90
definitions of ‘average’ velocity,
110
diamagnetic drift, 250
group, 201
in sawtooth wave, 111
in small amplitude oscillatory
field, 108
quiver, 436
virial theorem, 276
viscosity, 274, 286
Vlasov equation
derivation of, 31
moments of, 34
treatment of collisions, 34
volume per unitflux, 334
vortices
magnetic reconnection, 364
vorticity, 286
source for, 289wall stabilization, 326
warm plasma dispersion relation
(electrostatic), 234
water beading, 362
wave
Alfven, 131
beating, 398
Bernstein, 236
definition of cold plasma wave,
178
drift, 249
dust acoustic, 491
dust Alfven, 504
dust ion acoustic, 494
dust whistler, 505
electron-plasma, 129
electrostatic ion cyclotron, 263
energy equation, 219, 221
energy, finite temperature wave,
224
extraordinary, 186
frequency dispersion, 201
ion acoustic, 129
magnetized cold plasma disper-
sion, 181
negative energy, 225
ordinary, 186
quasi-electrostatic cold plasma,
203
surface, 214
whistler, 200
wave energy
in diocotron mode, 468
wave normal surface, 188, 191
wave-wave nonlinearity, 428
waveguide, plasma, 214
wheel wave normal surface, 191
whistler wave, 200, 207
Wigner-Seitz radius, 487
WKB approximation, 66
WKB criterion, 212
WKB mode535