Waves in Plasmas

Thomas H. Stix (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

566 Seiten

1992 | 1992 ed.
American Institute of Physics (Verlag)
978-0-88318-859-0 (ISBN)

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"Blurb & Contents" "The reader is treated to constantly refreshing and engaging commentary and opinion that always informs....As she depicts them, the problems of the universe are always fascinating and, most of all, they are alive and compelling." David DeVorkin, Sky & Telescope Virginia Trimble offers readers a fascinating and accessible tour of the stars. An astronomer with shared appointments in California and Maryland, the author ranges over a large portion of the universe as she discusses the search for life on other planets, how galaxies form, why stars explode and die, and the nature of the elusive dark matter in the universe. She also explains the astronomical significance of Cheeps' pyramid and leads the reader through scientific speculation about what and when the Star of Bethlehem might have been. Throughout, Trimble points to the exciting unanswered questions that still perplex the field and considers the formidable tasks to be faced by the next generation of young astronomers.

Wave normal surfaces; waves in a cold uniform plasma; causality, acoustic waves and simple drift waves; energy flow and accessibility; Kruskal-Schwarzschild solutions for a bounded plasma; oscillations in bonded plasmas; plasma models with discrete structure; longitudinal oscillations in a plasma of continuous structure; absolute and convective instability; susceptibilities for a hot plasma in a magnetic field; waves in magnetized uniform media; effects on waves from weak collisions; reflection, absorption and mode conversion; nonuniform plasmas; the straight-trajectory approximation; quasilinear diffusion; quasilinear diffusion in a magnetized plasma; bounce-averaged quasilinear diffusion in a magnetized plasma; bounce-averaged quasilinear diffusion.

Zusatzinfo	XIII, 566 p.
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Atom- / Kern- / Molekularphysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Mechanik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Plasmaphysik
ISBN-10	0-88318-859-7 / 0883188597
ISBN-13	978-0-88318-859-0 / 9780883188590
Zustand	Neuware