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Recommended Books (Mostly for reference. Notes will be handed out.)




General


Elementary:

Amazon logo Chen, F. F.Introduction to Plasma Physics. 2nd ed. Plenum Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780306307553.

See also:

Amazon logo Shohet, J. L.The Plasma State. Burlington, MA: Academic Press, 1971. ISBN: 9780126405507.

Amazon logo Tanenbaum, B. S.Plasma Physics. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1967. ISBN: 9780070628120.

Intermediate:

Amazon logo Hazeltine, R. D., and F. L. Waelbroeck.The Framework of Plasma Physics. NewYork, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 1998. ISBN: 9780738200477.

Amazon logo Goldston, R. J., and P. H. Rutherford.Introduction to Plasma Physics. New York, NY: Taylor & Francis Inc., 1995. ISBN: 9780750301831.

See also:

Amazon logo Clemmow, P. C., and J. P. Dougherty.Electrodynamics of Particles and Plasmas. NewYork, NY: Perseus Books, 1989. ISBN: 9780201515008.

Amazon logo Spitzer, L., Jr.Physics of Fully Ionized Gases. 2nd ed. New York, NY: Interscience-John Wiley, 1962. ISBN: 9780470817230.

Amazon logo Schmidt, G.Physics of High Temperature Plasmas. 2nd ed. Burlington, MA: Academic Press, 1979. ISBN: 9780126266603. (Recommended for theory or particle orbits)

Boyd, T. J. M., and J. J. Sanderson. Plasma Physics. Barnes and Noble, 1969. (Recommended for the statistical mechanics description of plasmas)

Amazon logo Dendy, R., ed.Plasma Physics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1994. ISBN: 9780521433099. (Recommended for specific chapters on space and plasmas and on industrial plasmas)

Advanced:

Amazon logo Krall, N. A., and A. W. Trivelpiece.Principles of Plasma Physics. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1973. Reissued by San Francisco Press, 1986. ISBN: 9780911302585.

See also:

Amazon logo Ichimaru, S.Principles of Plasma Physics - A Statistical Approach. W. H. Benjamin, 1973. ISBN: 9780805387537.



Plasma Waves


Amazon logo Stix, T. H.Waves in Plasmas. American Institute of Physics, 1992. ISBN: 9780883188590.



Plasma Diagnostics


Amazon logo Hutchinson, I. H.Principles of Plasma Diagnostics. 2nd ed. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1987. ISBN: 9780521326223.

Huddlestone, R. H., and S. L. Leonard. Plasma Diagnostic Techniques. Burlington, MA: Academic Press, 1965.



Magnetic Confinement Fusion


Amazon logo Rose, D. J., and M. Clark, Jr.Plasmas and Controlled Fusion. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press; New York, NY: John Wiley, 1961. ISBN: 9780262180061.

Amazon logo Miyamoto, K.Plasma Physics for Nuclear Fusion. Revised ed. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1989. ISBN: 9780262631174.

Amazon logo Wesson, J.Tokamaks. 2nd ed. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1987. ISBN: 9780198563280.



Plasma Astrophysics


Amazon logo Tajima, T., and K. Shibata.Plasma Astrophysics. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1997. ISBN: 9780201406429.


 








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