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Plasma Physics (Methods of Experimental Physics Volume 9 Part B)
By RALPH H. LOVBERG
* Publisher: Academic Press
* Number Of Pages: 301
* Publication Date: 1971-07-12
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0124759491
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780124759497
PREFACE TO VOLUME 9
Plasma physics methods find applications in a wide range of disciplines,
from astrophysics to electrical power generation. We therefore considered
it desirable to combine in Part A (edited by Hans R. Griem) a discussion
of the most widely used experimental methods in our field with examples
for their applications to laboratory plasma (mostly stability) problems.
Part R (edited by Ralph H. Lovberg) mainly summarizes how plasma
methods help in investigations of our environment and in technology.
There are also chapters dealing with some recent developments in plasma
generation, radiation, and optical measurements.
The reader will probably be surprised by the large share of theory in
many of the parts. This seems to be typical of plasma physics, and is
perhaps unavoidable when dealing with many-body systems (albeit here
exclusively classical ones). Experimental techniques have already been
covered in great detail in other multiauthor books (“Plasma Diagnostic
Techniques,” S. L. Leonard and R. H. Huddlestone, eds., Academic Press,
New York, 1965 ; “Plasma Diagnostics,” W. Lochte-Holtgreven, ed.,
North-Holland Publ., Amsterdam, 1968) and in some monographs
(“Plasma Diagnostics with Microwaves,” M. A. Heald and C. R. Wharton,
Wiley, New York, 1965; “Plasma Spectroscopy,” H. R. Griem, McGraw-
Hill, New York, 1964; “Radiation Processes in Plasmas,” G. Bekefi,
Wiley, New York, 1966). We therefore emphasize general methods used in
experimental investigations of plasma problems.
Another compromise had to be found in regard to the ideal of a unified
notation. Had the editors insisted on an entirely uniform notation throughout
the volume, many of the parts would have deviated substantially
from general usage in the relevant literature. As one of the foremost functions
of this series is to introduce the reader to the more specialized
literature, this would have been too high a price to pay. We therefore hope
that the appended list of symbols will help the reader to find his way
through the volume in spite of multiple meanings of some symbols, and
different symbols for the same physical quantity in separate parts.
The choice of systems of units also becomes difficult in an enterprise
such as this, since plasma technology, more than most other fields, involves
a large overlapping of pure science and engineering. An inevitable result is
that the plasma physicist is forced into some kind of compromise between
the cgs and mks systems of units (especially in the associated electromagnetic
problems), and the point at which this compromise is made will
vary from one worker to another.
We thank all contributors for their shares in this task, and Dr. L. Marton,
the editor of these Methods volumes, and Academic Press for their steady
encouragement.
HANS R. GRIEM
RALPHH . LOVBERG

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