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082			_a530.44 _bGOL/I
100			_aGoldston, Robert J. _95494
245			_aIntroduction to Plasma Physics
260			_aNew York: _bTaylor & Francis, _c2019.
300			_a491p.
505			_a Definition of a plasma. Single-particle motion: Uniform fields. Static, non-uniform fields. Tune-dependent fields. Mappings. Plasmas as fluids: Fluid equations for a plasma. Relation between fluid equations and guiding-centre drifts. Single-fluid magnetohydrodynamics. Small-Larmor-radius approximation. Magnetohydrodynanmic equilibrium. Collisional processes in plasmas: Fully and partially ionized plasmas. Collisions in fully ionized plasmas. Diffusion in plasmas. The Fokker-Planck equation for Coulomb collisions. Collisions of beam ions in a plasma. Waves and instabilities in a fluid plasma: Waves in an unmagnetized plasma. High frequency waves in a magnetized plasma. Low frequency waves in a magnetized plasma. The Rayleigh-Taylor instability. The resistive tearing instability. Drift waves and instabilities. Kinetic theory of plasmas: The Vlasov equation. Kinetic effects on plasma waves - Vlasov's treatment. Kinetic effects on plasma waves: Landau's treatment. Velocity-space instabilities. The drift-kinetic equestion.
650			_aPlasma waves _925354
650			_aTune-dependent fields _925355
650			_aMagnetized plasma _925356
700			_95495 _aRutherford, P.H.
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