LEADER 04994nam 2200613 a 450 001 9911007091603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-280-58190-5 010 $a9786613611680 010 $a0-08-057049-6 035 $a(CKB)2670000000168543 035 $a(EBL)872571 035 $a(OCoLC)782878400 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000657956 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11395058 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000657956 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10681007 035 $a(PQKB)10522634 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC872571 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000168543 100 $a20120405d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPhysical kinetics /$fby E.M. Lifshitz and L.P. Pitaevskii ; translated from the Russian by J.B. Sykes and R.N. Franklin 210 $aAmsterdam ;$aBoston $cElsevier $cButterworth Heinemann$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (465 p.) 225 1 $aCourse of theoretical physics ;$vv. 10 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-7506-2635-6 327 $aFront Cover; Physical Kinetics; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; PREFACE; NOTATION; CHAPTER I. KINETIC THEORY OF GASES; 1. The distribution function; 2. The principle of detailed balancing; 3. The Boltzmann transport equation; 4. The H theorem; 5. The change to macroscopic equations; 6. The transport equation for a slightly inhomogeneous gas; 7. Thermal conduction in the gas; 8. Viscosity in the gas; 9. Symmetry of the kinetic coefficients; 10. Approximate solution of the transport equation; 11. Diffusion of a light gas in a heavy gas; 12. Diffusion of a heavy gas in a light gas 327 $a13. Transport phenomena in a gas in an external field14. Phenomena in slightly rarefied gases; 15. Phenomena in highly rarefied gases; 16. Dynamical derivation of the transport equation; 17. The transport equation including three-particle collisions; 18. The virial expansion of the kinetic coefficients; 19. Fluctuations of the distribution function in an equilibrium gas; 20. Fluctuations of the distribution function in a non-equilibrium gas; CHAPTER II. THE DIFFUSION APPROXIMATION; 21. The Fokker-Planck equation; 22. A weakly ionized gas in an electric field 327 $a23. Fluctuations in a weakly ionized non-equilibrium gas24. Recombination and ionization; 25. Ambipolar diffusion; 26. Ion mobility in solutions of strong electrolytes; CHAPTER III. COLLISIONLESS PLASMAS; 27. The self-consistent field; 28. Spatial dispersion in plasmas; 29. The permittivity of a collisionless plasma; 30. Landau damping; 31. Permittivity of a Maxwellian plasma; 32. Longitudinal plasma waves; 33. Ion-sound waves; 34. Relaxation of the initial perturbation; 35. Plasma echoes; 36. Adiabatic electron capture; 37. Quasi-neutral plasmas; 38. Fluid theory for a two-temperature plasma 327 $a39. Solitons in a weakly dispersing medium40. Permittivity of a degenerate collisionless plasma; CHAPTER IV. COLLISIONS IN PLASMAS; 41. The Landau collision integral; 42. Energy transfer between electrons and ions; 43. Mean free path of plasma particles; 44. Lorentzian plasmas; 45. Runaway electrons; 46. Convergent collision integrals; 47. Interaction via plasma waves; 48. Plasma absorption in the high-frequency limit; 49. Quasi-linear theory of Landau damping; 50. The transport equation for a relativistic plasma; 51. Fluctuations in plasmas; CHAPTER V. PLASMAS IN MAGNETIC FIELDS 327 $a52. Permittivity of a collisionless cold plasma53. The distribution function in a magnetic field; 54. Permittivity of a magnetoactive Maxwellian plasma; 55. Landau damping in magnetoactive plasmas; 56. Electromagnetic waves in a magnetoactive cold plasma; 57. Effect of thermal motion on electromagnetic wave propagation in magnetoactive plasmas; 58. Equations of fluid dynamics in a magnetoactive plasma; 59. Transport coefficients of a plasma in a strong magnetic field; 60. The drift approximation; CHAPTER VI. INSTABILITY THEORY; 61. Beam instability; 62. Absolute and convective instabilities 327 $a63. Amplification and non-transparency 330 $aThis volume is mainly concerned with a systematic development of the theory of plasmas, the authority being firmly rooted in the pioneering work of Landau. Corresponding results are also given for partially ionized plasmas, relativistic plasmas, degenerate or non-ideal plasmas and solid state plasmas. 606 $aPlasma (Ionized gases) 615 0$aPlasma (Ionized gases) 676 $a500 676 $a531.113 700 $aLifshits$b E. M$g(Evgenii Mikhailovich)$0285145 701 $aPitaevskii$b L. P$g(Lev Petrovich)$01822196 701 $aSykes$b J. B$g(John Bradbury)$01822197 701 $aFranklin$b R. N$01822455 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911007091603321 996 $aPhysical kinetics$94388667 997 $aUNINA