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Book Contents
- Basic concepts
- Derivation of fluid equations: Vlasov, 2-fluid, MHD
- Motion of a single plasma particle
- Elementary plasma waves
- Streaming instabilities and the Landau problem
- Cold plasma waves in a magnetized plasma
- Waves in inhomogeneous plasmas and wave energy relations
- Vlasov theory of warm electrostatic waves in a magnetized plasma
- MHD equilibria
- Stability of static MHD equilibria
- Magnetic helicity interpreted and Woltjer-Taylor relaxation
- Magnetic reconnection
- Fokker-Planck theory of collisions
- Wave-particle nonlinearities
- Wave-wave nonlinearities
- Non-neutral plasmas
- Dusty plasmas