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The topics covered in these notes are selective and tend to emphasize more on kinetic-theory approaches to waves and instabilities in both uniform and non-uniform plasmas, students are assumed to have some basic knowledge of plasma dynamics in terms of single-particle and fluid descriptions.
Sample Chapter(s)
Chapter 1: General Properties of Electromagnetic Waves in Dielectric Media (784 KB)
Contents:
- General Properties of Electromagnetic Waves in Dielectric Media
- Linear Waves and Instabilities in Uniform Unmagnetized Plasmas
- Linear Waves and Instabilities in Uniform Magnetized Plasmas
- Linear Waves and Instabilities in Nonuniform Plasmas
- Topics in Nonlinear Plasma Theory
Readership: Applied physicists.
