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By Donald A. Gurnett,Amitava Bhattacharjee

Introducing uncomplicated rules of plasma physics and their functions to area, laboratory and astrophysical plasmas, this new version offers up-to-date fabric all through. issues coated contain single-particle motions, kinetic idea, magnetohydrodynamics, small amplitude waves in cold and hot plasmas, and collisional results. New additions contain the ponderomotive strength, tearing instabilities in resistive plasmas and the magnetorotational instability in accretion disks, charged particle acceleration through shocks, and a better examine nonlinear phenomena. A vast variety of purposes are explored: planetary magnetospheres and radiation belts, the confinement and balance of plasmas in fusion units, the propagation of discontinuities and surprise waves within the sun wind, and research of assorted sorts of plasma waves and instabilities which can ensue in planetary magnetospheres and laboratory plasma units. With step by step derivations and self-contained introductions to mathematical tools, this e-book is perfect as a sophisticated undergraduate to graduate-level textbook, or as a reference for researchers.

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