Fundamentals of Plasma Physics

negative energy wave, 225
neutron, 296
nominal plasma parameters, 21
non-adiabatic motion, 95
non-linear dispersion relation, 444
non-neutral plasma, 460
relation to Landau damping, 476
non-resonant particles
in quasilinear velocity space diffu-
sion, 411
numerical integration of particle tra-
jectory, 25

orbital motion limited model, 485,
504
ordinary wave, 186
orthogonal curvilinear coordinates,
518
overdense, 197

parallel current, 268
paramagnetic, 282
parameter space, 195
parametric decay instability, 428, 458
Parker reconnection model, 378
Penrose criterion, 172
phase integral, 232
phase mixing, 202
and echoes, 416
phase space, 30
physical constants, 524
pinch
Bennett, 295
pinch force, 269
plasma dispersion function
definition of, 165
large argument limit of, 167
small argument limit of, 167
plasma frequency
definition of, 126
plateau velocity distribution, 412
Plemelj formula, 171
polarization current, 93
relation to capacitance, 95
polarization drift, 78, 80
change in particle energy, 120

in Alfven wave, 132

relation to MHD equation of mo-

tion, 93

stochastic motion, 106

poles, 160

poloidal

definition of, 279

poloidalflux, 279

poloidal Larmor radius, 285

poloidal magnetic field, 280

ponderomotive force, 436, 448

Poyntingflux, 220, 309

Poynting theorem, 357

pressure

magnetic, 268

pressure tensor, definition of, 37

principal resonances, 190

privateflux, 379

product rule for oscillating physical

quantities, 221

publicflux, 379

pump

MHD acceleration offluid, 290

pump depletion, 457

pump wave, 429

pure electron plasma, 460

QL modes, 199

QT modes, 199

quantum mechanics, 323

quantum mechanics, correspondence

to, 214

quasi-linear velocity space diffusion,

399

quasi-neutrality, 9

quasilinear diffusion

and collisions, 426

quiver velocity, 436

radiation pressure, 436

radius of curvature, 79

Raman backscatter, 438

random velocity, 37

reduced mass, 383

redundancy of Poisson’s equation,

178

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