Introduction to Plasma Physics
Introduction to Plasma Physics
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等离子体物理学概论
DOI：
10.1088/0741-3335/38/1/004
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1996
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J. A. Wesson
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作者：
J. A. Wesson
现在有很多书籍介绍等离子体物理学，任何新书都必须通过竞争来评判。这本书出版得很好。它涉及基本的等离子体物理学，其优点之一是作者都是该领域的杰出人物，他们抵制住了包含更多深奥材料的诱惑。因此，在广泛的主题上，我们获得了易于理解和全面的理论分析。人们对磁约束物理有明显的偏见，但对于许多学生来说这将是一个优势。这类书籍在题材的选择上没有太大的自由。因此，我们有单粒子运动、作为流体的等离子体、碰撞、波、不稳定性和一些动力学理论。这些都得到了系统而清晰的处理，文本中散布着许多学生感兴趣的问题。在赞扬了这本书之后，也许我可能会提请注意一个遗漏。该主题的实验方面几乎完全被忽视。这显然是作者有意识的选择，也是可以接受的。然而，由于等离子体的理论描述已被证明非常困难，学生可能会对我们的理解水平产生一些误导性的看法。购买本书的人将有机会使用所提供的计算机磁盘获得一些乐趣。这允许使用冷等离子体色散关系进行数值计算，并探索一些简单的映射。
There are now many books providing an introduction to plasma physics and any new book must be judged against the competition. This book comes out very well. It deals with basic plasma physics and one of its merits is that the authors, who are both eminent in the field, have resisted the temptation to include more esoteric material. Thus over a wide range of subjects we are given an easy to follow and thorough theoretical analysis. There is an obvious bias toward magnetic confinement physics, but for many students this will be an advantage. In books of this kind there is not much freedom in the choice of subject matter. Thus we have single-particle motion, plasmas as fluids, collisions, waves, instabilities and some kinetic theory. These are dealt with methodically and clearly, and the text is interspersed with many interesting problems for the student. Having praised the book, perhaps I might draw attention to an omission. The experimental aspects of the subject are almost entirely neglected. This is clearly a conscious choice by the authors and is quite acceptable. However, since the theoretical description of plasmas has proved so difficult, a student might be left with a somewhat misleading view of our level of understanding. People who buy the book will have the opportunity of some fun with the computer disk provided. This allows numerical calculations using the cold plasma dispersion relation, and the exploration of some simple mappings.