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    <title>Introduction to plasma physics</title>
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    <namePart>Bhattacharjee, A. (Amitava)</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1955-</namePart>
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    <dateIssued encoding="marc">2016</dateIssued>
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    <edition>Second edition.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <tableOfContents>Characteristic parameters of a plasma -- Single particle motions -- Waves in a cold plasma -- Kinetic theory and the moment equations -- Magnetohydrodynamics -- MHD equilibria and stability -- Discontinuities and shock waves -- Electrostatic waves in a hot unmagnetized plasma -- Waves in a hot magnetized plasma -- Nonlinear effects -- Collisional processes.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Donald A. Gurnett, University of Iowa, Amitava Bhattacharjee, Princeton University, New Jersey.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index.</note>
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