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Plasma Physics

Autor Kip S Thorne, Roger D Blandford
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 iun 2021

Observăm în Plasma Physics o abordare pedagogică modernă, volumul fiind conceput ca un manual de sine stătător extras din lucrarea vastă Modern Classical Physics. Structura sa este calibrată special pentru mediul academic, oferind flexibilitatea necesară unui curs de un semestru prin secțiunile opționale „Track 2”, care permit adaptarea nivelului de dificultate în funcție de pregătirea studenților. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care Kip S. Thorne și Roger D. Blandford reușesc să transforme un subiect tehnic într-o expunere bazată pe intuiție fizică, fără a sacrifica rigoarea necesară nivelului de masterat sau doctorat. Subliniem că acest volum completează perspectiva oferită de Statistical Physics, adăugând dinamica mediilor ionizate și interacțiunile electromagnetice complexe pe care fizica statistică pură le tratează doar la nivel de ansamblu. Față de Relativity and Cosmology, care explorează macrostructura universului, Plasma Physics se concentrează pe starea predominantă a materiei barionice, oferind instrumentele necesare pentru a înțelege fenomenele astrofizice de la scară mică și medie. Textul beneficiază de experiența de decenii a autorilor la Caltech, integrând ilustrații color și o bibliografie extinsă care ghidează cititorul spre cercetarea de frontieră. În contextul operei lui Thorne, volumul păstrează claritatea conceptuală din Gravitation, dar se distanțează de formalismul geometric pur în favoarea unor aplicații în lumea reală. Dacă în Black Holes autorul punea accent pe „paradigma membranei”, aici regăsim aceeași capacitate de a traduce matematica abstractă în concepte fizice palpabile, esențiale pentru viitorii cercetători în fuziune nucleară sau astrofizică.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780691215501
ISBN-10: 0691215502
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 206 x 255 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.7 kg
Editura: Princeton University Press

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Recomandăm această lucrare studenților avansați și cercetătorilor care au nevoie de o bază solidă în fizica plasmei, extrasă dintr-un context pedagogic de elită. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere intuitivă a fenomenelor complexe, susținută de probleme practice și referințe la cercetări actuale. Este un instrument esențial pentru cei care doresc să treacă de la teoria fundamentală la aplicații în astrofizică sau tehnologia fuziunii, beneficiind de rigoarea academică a editurii Princeton University Press.


Despre autor

Kip S. Thorne este un fizician teoretician de renume mondial, laureat al Premiului Nobel, recunoscut pentru contribuțiile sale fundamentale în fizica gravitației și astrofizică. Profesor emerit la Caltech, Thorne a modelat generații de cercetători și este considerat una dintre cele mai importante autorități în domeniul undelor gravitaționale. Cariera sa îmbină cercetarea academică riguroasă, exemplificată prin tratatul clasic Gravitation, cu dorința de popularizare a științei, colaborând inclusiv în proiecte cinematografice pentru a explica fenomenele fizice complexe unui public larg.


Descriere scurtă

"Kip Thorne and Roger Blandford's monumental Modern Classical Physics is now available in five stand-alone volumes that make ideal textbooks for individual graduate or advanced undergraduate courses on statistical physics; optics; elasticity and fluid dynamics; plasma physics; and relativity and cosmology. Each volume teaches the fundamental concepts, emphasizes modern, real-world applications, and gives students a physical and intuitive understanding of the subject. Relativity and Cosmology is an essential introduction to the subject, including remarkable recent advances. Written by award-winning physicists who have made fundamental contributions to the field and taught it for decades, the book differs from most others on the subject in important ways. It highlights recent transformations in our understanding of black holes, gravitational waves, and the cosmos; it emphasizes the physical interpretation of general relativity in terms of measurements made by observers; it explains the physics of the Riemann tensor in terms of tidal forces, differential frame dragging, and associated field lines; it presents an astrophysically oriented description of spinning black holes; it gives a detailed analysis of an incoming gravitational wave's interaction with a detector such as LIGO; and it provides a comprehensive, in-depth account of the universe's evolution, from its earliest moments to the present. While the book is designed to be used for a one-quarter or full-semester course, it goes deep enough to provide a foundation for understanding and participating in some areas of cutting-edge research. Includes many exercise problems Features color figures, suggestions for further reading, extensive cross-references, and a detailed index Optional "Track 2" sections make this an ideal book for a one-quarter or one-semester course An online illustration package is available to professors The five volumes, which are available individually as paperbacks and ebooks, are Statistical Physics; Optics; Elasticity and Fluid Dynamics; Plasma Physics; and Relativity and Cosmology." --

Cuprins

  • List of Boxes
  • Preface
  • Contents of Modern Classical Physics, volumes 1-5
  • 19 Magnetohydrodynamics
    • 19.1 Overview
    • 19.2 Basic Equations of MHD
      • 19.2.1 Maxwell's Equations in the MHD Approximation
      • 19.2.2 Momentum and Energy Conservation
      • 19.2.3 Boundary Conditions
      • 19.2.4 Magnetic Field and Vorticity
    • 19.3 Magnetostatic Equilibria
      • 19.3.1 Controlled Thermonuclear Fusion
      • 19.3.2 Z-Pinch
      • 19.3.3 ¿-Pinch
      • 19.3.4 Tokamak
    • 19.4 Hydromagnetic Flows
    • 19.5 Stability of Magnetostatic Equilibria
      • 19.5.1 Linear Perturbation Theory
      • 19.5.2 Z-Pinch: Sausage and Kink Instabilities
      • 19.5.3 The ¿-Pinch and Its Toroidal Analog; Flute Instability; Motivation for Tokamak
      • 19.5.4 Energy Principle and Virial Theorems
    • 19.6 Dynamos and Reconnection of Magnetic Field Lines
      • 19.6.1 Cowling's Theorem
      • 19.6.2 Kinematic Dynamos
      • 19.6.3 Magnetic Reconnection
    • 19.7 Magnetosonic Waves and the Scattering of Cosmic Rays
      • 19.7.1 Cosmic Rays
      • 19.7.2 Magnetosonic Dispersion Relation
      • 19.7.3 Scattering of Cosmic Rays by Alfvén Waves
    • Bibliographic Note
    • PART VI PLASMA PHYSICS
    • 20 The Particle Kinetics of Plasma
      • 20.1 Overview
      • 20.2 Examples of Plasmas and Their Density-Temperature Regimes
        • 20.2.1 Ionization Boundary
        • 20.2.2 Degeneracy Boundary
        • 20.2.3 Relativistic Boundary
        • 20.2.4 Pair-Production Boundary
        • 20.2.5 Examples of Natural and Human-Made Plasmas
      • 20.3 Collective Effects in Plasmas-Debye Shielding and Plasma Oscillations
        • 20.3.1 Debye Shielding
        • 20.3.2 Collective Behavior
        • 20.3.3 Plasma Oscillations and Plasma Frequency
      • 20.4 Coulomb Collisions
        • 20.4.1 Collision Frequency
        • 20.4.2 The Coulomb Logarithm
        • 20.4.3 Thermal Equilibration Rates in a Plasma
        • 20.4.4 Discussion
      • 20.5 Transport Coefficients
        • 20.5.1 Coulomb Collisions
        • 20.5.2 Anomalous Resistivity and Anomalous Equilibration
      • 20.6 Magnetic Field
        • 20.6.1 Cyclotron Frequency and Larmor Radius
        • 20.6.2 Validity of the Fluid Approximation
        • 20.6.3 Conductivity Tensor
      • 20.7 Particle Motion and Adiabatic Invariants
        • 20.7.1 Homogeneous, Time-Independent Magnetic Field and No Electric Field
        • 20.7.2 Homogeneous, Time-Independent Electric and Magnetic Fields
        • 20.7.3 Inhomogeneous, Time-Independent Magnetic Field
        • 20.7.4 A Slowly Time-Varying Magnetic Field
        • 20.7.5 Failure of Adiabatic Invariants; Chaotic Orbits
      • Bibliographic Note
      • 21 Waves in Cold Plasmas: Two-Fluid Formalism
        • 21.1 Overview
        • 21.2 Dielectric Tensor,Wave Equation, and General Dispersion Relation
        • 21.3 Two-Fluid Formalism
        • 21.4 Wave Modes in an Unmagnetized Plasma
          • 21.4.1 Dielectric Tensor and Dispersion Relation for a Cold, Unmagnetized Plasma
          • 21.4.2 Plasma Electromagnetic Modes
          • 21.4.3 Langmuir Waves and Ion-Acoustic Waves inWarm Plasmas
          • 21.4.4 Cutoffs and Resonances
        • 21.5 Wave Modes in a Cold, Magnetized Plasma
          • 21.5.1 Dielectric Tensor and Dispersion Relation
          • 21.5.2 Parallel Propagation
          • 21.5.3 Perpendicular Propagation
          • 21.5.4 Propagation of Radio Waves in the Ionosphere; Magnetoionic Theory
          • 21.5.5 CMA Diagram forWave Modes in a Cold, Magnetized Plasma
        • 21.6 Two-Stream Instability
        • Bibliographic Note
        • 22 Kinetic Theory ofWarm Plasmas
          • 22.1 Overview
          • 22.2 Basic Concepts of Kinetic Theory and Its Relationship to Two-Fluid Theory
            • 22.2.1 Distribution Function and Vlasov Equation
            • 22.2.2 Relation of Kinetic Theory to Two-Fluid Theory
            • 22.2.3 Jeans' Theorem
          • 22.3 Electrostatic Waves in an Unmagnetized Plasma: Landau Damping
            • 22.3.1 Formal Dispersion Relation
            • 22.3.2 Two-Stream Instability
            • 22.3.3 The Landau Contour
            • 22.3.4 Dispersion Relation forWeakly Damped or Growing Waves
            • 22.3.5 Langmuir Waves and Their Landau Damping
            • 22.3.6 Ion-Acoustic Waves and Conditions for Their Landau Damping to BeWeak
          • 22.4 Stability of Electrostatic Waves in Unmagnetized Plasmas
            • 22.4.1 Nyquist's Method
            • 22.4.2 Penrose's Instability Criterion
          • 22.5 Particle Trapping
          • 22.6 ¿-Particle Distribution Function
            • 22.6.1 BBGKY Hierarchy
            • 22.6.2 Two-Point Correlation Function
            • 22.6.3 Coulomb Correction to Plasma Pressure
          • Bibliographic Note
          • 23 Nonlinear Dynamics of Plasmas
            • 23.1 Overview
            • 23.2 Quasilinear Theory in Classical Language
              • 23.2.1 Classical Derivation of the Theory
              • 23.2.2 Summary of Quasilinear Theory
              • 23.2.3 Conservation Laws
              • 23.2.4 Generalization to 3 Dimensions
            • 23.3 Quasilinear Theory in Quantum Mechanical Language
              • 23.3.1 Plasmon Occupation Number ¿
              • 23.3.2 Evolution of ¿ for Plasmons via Interaction with Electrons
              • 23.3.3 Evolution of ¿ for Electrons via Interaction with Plasmons
              • 23.3.4 Emission of Plasmons by Particles in the Presence of a Magnetic Field
              • 23.3.5 Relationship between Classical and Quantum Mechanical Formalisms
              • 23.3.6 Evolution of ¿ via Three-Wave Mixing
            • 23.4 Quasilinear Evolution of Unstable Distribution Functions-A Bump in the Tail
              • 23.4.1 Instability of Streaming Cosmic Rays
              • 23.5 Parametric Instabilities; Laser Fusion
              • 23.6 Solitons and Collisionless Shock Waves
            • Bibliographic Note
            • App. A Evolution of Vorticity
              • 14.2 Vorticity, Circulation, and Their Evolution
                • 14.2.1 Vorticity Evolution
                • 14.2.2 Barotropic, Inviscid, Compressible Flows: Vortex Lines Frozen into Fluid
              • App. B Geometric Optics
                • 7.2 Waves in a Homogeneous Medium
                  • 7.2.1 Monochromatic Plane Waves; Dispersion Relation
                  • 7.2.2 Wave Packets
                • 7.3 Waves in an Inhomogeneous, Time-Varying Medium: The Eikonal Approximation and Geometric Optics
                  • 7.3.1 Geometric Optics for a Prototypical Wave Equation
                  • 7.3.2 Connection of Geometric Optics to Quantum Theory
                  • 7.3.3 Geometric Optics for a General Wave
                  • 7.3.4 Examples of Geometric-Optics Wave Propagation
                  • 7.3.5 Relation to Wave Packets; Limitations of the Eikonal Approximation and Geometric Optics
                  • 7.3.6 Fermat's Principle
                • App. C Distribution Function and Mean Occupation Number
                  • 3.2 Phase Space and Distribution Function
                    • 3.2.1 Newtonian Number Density in Phase Space, ¿
                    • 3.2.3 Distribution Function f (x, v, t) for Particles in a Plasma
                    • 3.2.5 Mean Occupation Number ¿
                  • References
                  • Name Index
                  • Subject Index
                  • Contents of the Unified Work, Modern Classical Physics
                  • Preface to Modern Classical Physics
                  • Acknowledgments for Modern Classical Physics