Introduction to Plasma Physics
by Francis F. Chen
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0306307553
- ISBN 13
- 9780306307553
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About This Item
1977 3rd Printing brown hardcover and DJ in good+ condition, some wear & tear to DJ, a few note marks inside. US media mail for shipping.
This book grew out of lecture notes for an undergraduate course in plasma physics that has been offered for a number of years at UCLA. With the current increase in interest in controlled fusion and the wide spread use of plasma physics in space research and relativistic as trophysics, it makes sense for the study of plasmas to become a part of an undergraduate student's basic experience, along with subjects like thermodynamics or quantum mechanics. Although the primary purpose of this book was to fulfill a need for a text that seniors or juniors can really understand, I hope it can also serve as a painless way for scientists in other fields-solid state or laser physics, for instance to become acquainted with plasmas. Two guiding principles were followed: Do not leave algebraic steps as an exercise for the reader, and do not let the algebra obscure the physics. The extent to which these opposing aims could be met is largely due to the treatment of a plasma as two interpenetrating fluids. The two-fluid picture is both easier to understand and more accurate than the single-fluid approach, at least for low-density plasma phe nomena.
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- Poco Productions (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5472poco
- Title
- Introduction to Plasma Physics
- Author
- Francis F. Chen
- Format/Binding
- Very good binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 3rd Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0306307553
- ISBN 13
- 9780306307553
- Publisher
- Plenum Press
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 1977
- Keywords
- Plasma Physics
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