refractive index
definition of, 181
relaxation, 341
relaxed state, 344
residues, 160
resistive mode, 360
resistive time, 371
resistive wall instability, 471, 479
resistivity
Fokker-Planck model, 393
simple derivation of, 17
resonance, 185, 190
ion cyclotron, 193
ion-ion, 208
resonance cones, 204
resonant particles
in quasilinear velocity space diffu-
sion, 407, 409
reversal of magnetic field
spatial (cusp), 103
temporal, 102
reversed field pinch, 285, 344
ribbon, gift-wrapping, 358
Richardson-Dushman temperature
limited emission, 29
Rosenbluth potentials, 388, 395
runaway electric field, 395, 397
Rutherford scattering
derivation, 22
saddle point, 243
safety factor, 333
tokamak, 375
sausage instability, 323, 331
scale factor, 518
scattering
energy transfer, 23
large angle, 12
Rutherford, 11, 22
small angle, 13
second adiabatic invariant, 87
self-adjointness, 310
self-confinement
impossibility of, 276
self-focusing, 438
separatrix, 284
sheath physics, 53
sheet current, 362
short wave radio transmission, 228
slow mode, 192
slow wave, 133
Snell’s law, 211
solar corona loop, 295, 381
soliton
interaction, 456
ion acoustic wave, 454
propagating envelope, 453
stationary envelope, 452
Solov’ev solution, 282
orbits in, 295
space-charge-limited current, 27
spheromak, 285, 344
stagnation offlow, 294
static equilibria, 274
steepest-descent contour, 242
stellarator, 285
stimulated Raman scattering, 458
Stirling’s formula, 58
stochastic motion, 106
streaming instability, 149
stress tensor
magnetic, 271
strongly-coupled plasma, 495
surface wave, 214
susceptibility
definition of, 126
Sweet-Parker
reconnection, 378
symmetry
assumption in MHD jet, 286
canonical angular momentum &
toroidal confinement, 285
in Grad-Shafranov equation, 280
in Lagrangian formalism, 64
in solution of Grad-Shafranov
equation, 280taxonomy of cold plasma waves, 188
Taylor relaxation, 341
TE mode, 216
tearing, 364
temperature limited current, 27534