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Book Synopsis"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."
Table of ContentsWave 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.
