About this title: This book provides the scientific background for understanding the scientific and technological applications of plasma physics, but it emphasizes something else: the intrinsic scientific interest of the plasma state. It attempts to develop an understanding of this state, and of plasma behavior, as thoroughly and systematically as possible. Building its explanations from carefully identified physical laws, the book avoids the occasional tendency of plasma texts to present the subject in terms of a collection of ad hoc recipes. In particular, the book emphasizes the relation between the ...
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Description: New in New jacket. pp. 336. Plasma physics is a necessary part of our understanding of stellar & galactic structure; it determines the magnetospheric environment of the earth & other planets; it forms the research frontier in such areas as nuclear fusion, advanced accelerators, & high frequency lasers; & its applications to various industrial processes such as computer chip manufacture are rapidly increasing. This book provides the scientific background for understanding such applications. ... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Perseus Publishing, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780738200477ISBN:0738200476
Description: As New/None, as Issued. 6.25" x 9.5" Tall 0738200476 336 pages including index. An excellent advanced book on plasma physics which would be both highly valuable as the basic text for teaching a graduate course in plasma physics and valuable as a reference text for research scientists. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Perseus Books, U. S
Date Published: 01/11/1998
ISBN-13:9780738200477ISBN:0738200476
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