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Plasma Physics
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Artikel-Nr:
9781032202518
Veröffentl:
2022
Erscheinungsdatum:
13.12.2022
Seiten:
292
Autor:
Richard Fitzpatrick
Gewicht:
470 g
Format:
232x153x19 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Richard Fitzpatrick is a Professor of Physics at the University of Texas at Austin, where he has been a faculty member since 1994. He is a member of the Royal Astronomical Society, a fellow of the American Physical Society, and the author of Maxwell's Equations and the Principles of Electromagnetism (2008), An Introduction to Celestial Mechanics (2012), Oscillations and Waves: An Introduction (2013). Plasma Physics: An Introduction (2014), Quantum Mechanics (2015), Theoretical Fluid Mechanics (2017), Oscillations and Waves: An Introduction, 2nd Edition (2019), Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (2020), and Newtonian Dynamics: An Introduction (2022). He earned a Master's degree in physics from the University of Cambridge and a DPhil in astronomy from the University of Sussex.
Plasma Physics: An Introduction is based on a series of university course lectures by a leading name in the field, and thoroughly covers the physics of the fourth state of matter.
Chapter 1 - Plasma Parameters Chapter 2 - Charged Particle Motion Chapter 3 - Collisions Chapter 4 - Plasma Fluid Theory Chapter 5 - Waves in Cold Plasmas Chapter 6 - Waves in Inhomogeneous Plasmas Chapter 7 - Waves in Warm Plasmas Chapter 8 - Magnetohydrodynamical Fluids Chapter 9 - Magnetic Reconnection. Bibliography. Index.