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Physical kinetics / / by E.M. Lifshitz and L.P. Pitaevskii ; translated from the Russian by J.B. Sykes and R.N. Franklin
| Physical kinetics / / by E.M. Lifshitz and L.P. Pitaevskii ; translated from the Russian by J.B. Sykes and R.N. Franklin |
| Autore | Lifshits E. M (Evgenii Mikhailovich) |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Boston, : Elsevier, : Butterworth Heinemann, 2008 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (465 p.) |
| Disciplina |
500
531.113 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
PitaevskiiL. P (Lev Petrovich)
SykesJ. B (John Bradbury) FranklinR. N |
| Collana | Course of theoretical physics |
| Soggetto topico | Plasma (Ionized gases) |
| ISBN |
1-280-58190-5
9786613611680 0-08-057049-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Front 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
13. 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 23. 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 39. 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 52. 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 63. Amplification and non-transparency |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9911007091603321 |
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| Amsterdam ; ; Boston, : Elsevier, : Butterworth Heinemann, 2008 | ||
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Quantum electrodynamics / / by V.B. Berestetskii, E.M. Lifshitz and L.P. Pitaevskii ; translated from the Russian by J.B. Sykes and J.S. Bell
| Quantum electrodynamics / / by V.B. Berestetskii, E.M. Lifshitz and L.P. Pitaevskii ; translated from the Russian by J.B. Sykes and J.S. Bell |
| Autore | Berestetskii V. B (Vladimir Borisovich) |
| Edizione | [2nd ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, : Butterworth-Heinemann, 1982 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (669 p.) |
| Disciplina | 537.6 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
LifshitsE. M (Evgenii Mikhailovich)
PitaevskiiL. P (Lev Petrovich) BerestetskiiV. B (Vladimir Borisovich) SykesJ. B (John Bradbury) BellJ. S |
| Collana | Course of theoretical physics |
| Soggetto topico | Quantum electrodynamics |
| ISBN |
1-280-58278-2
9786613612564 0-08-050346-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Front Cover; Quantum Electrodynamics: Course of Theoretical Physics; Copyright Page; PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION; FROM THE PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION; TABLE OF CONTENTS; NOTATION; INTRODUCTION; 1. The uncertainty principle in the relativistic case; CHAPTER I. PHOTONS; 2. Quantization of the free electromagnetic field; 3. Photons; 4. Gauge invariance; 5. The electromagnetic field in quantum theory; 6. The angular momentum and parity of the photon; 7. Spherical waves of photons; 8. The polarization of the photon; 9. A two-photon system; CHAPTER II. BOSONS
10. The wave equation for particles with spin zero11. Particles and antiparticles; 12. Strictly neutral particles; 13. The transformations C, P and T; 14. The wave equation for a particle with spin one; 15. The wave equation for particles with higher integral spins; 16. Helicity states of a particle; CHAPTER III. FERMIONS; 17. Four-dimensional spinors; 18. The relation between spinors and 4-vectors; 19. Inversion of spinors; 20. Dirac's equation in the spinor representation; 21. The symmetrical form of Dirac's equation; 22. Algebra of Dirac matrices; 23. Plane waves; 24. Spherical waves 25. The relation between the spin and the statistics 26. Charge conjugation and time reversal of spinors; 27. Internal symmetry of particles and antiparticles; 28. Bilinear forms; 29. The polarization density matrix; 30. Neutrinos; 31. The wave equation for a particle with spin 3/2; CHAPTER IV. PARTICLES IN AN EXTERNAL FIELD; 32. Dirac's equation for an electron in an external field; 33: Expansion in powers of 1/c; 34. Fine structure of levels of the hydrogen atom; 35. Motion in a centrally symmetric field; 36. Motion in a Coulomb field; 37. Scattering in a centrally symmetric field 38. Scattering in the ultra-relativistic case 39. The continuous-spectrum wave functions for scattering in a Coulomb field; 40. An electron in the field of an electromagnetic plane wave; 41. Motion of spin in an external field; 42. Neutron scattering in an electric field; CHAPTER V. RADIATION; 43. The electromagnetic interaction operator; 44. Emission and absorption; 45. Dipole radiation; 46. Electric multipole radiation; 47. Magnetic multipole radiation; 48. Angular distribution and polarization of the radiation; 49. Radiation from atoms: the electric type 50. Radiation from atoms: the magnetic type51. Radiation from atoms: the Zeeman and Stark effects; 52. Radiation from atoms: the hydrogen atom; 53. Radiation from diatomic molecules: electronic spectra; 54. Radiation from diatomic molecules: vibrational and rotational spectra; 55. Radiation from nuclei; 56. The photoelectric effect: non-relativistic case; 57. The photoelectric effect: relativistic case; 58. Photodisintegration of the deuteron; CHAPTER VI. SCATTERING OF RADIATION; 59. The scattering tensor; 60. Scattering by freely oriented systems; 61. Scattering by molecules 62. Natural width of spectral lines |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9911006551103321 |
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Berestetskii V. B (Vladimir Borisovich)
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| Oxford, : Butterworth-Heinemann, 1982 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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