Introduction to Plasma Physics Tapa dura - 1995

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.… Leer más

Plenum Press, 1974 hardback book in very good to near fine condition,dust jacket is very good to near fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.