Greg Tallents (University of York)

An Introduction to Special Relativity for Radiation and Plasma Physics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Aimed at students and researchers in physics and astrophysics, this textbook introduces the topic of special relativity, with an emphasis upon light-matter interaction and light in plasma. Includes discussion of important applications such as high power laser interactions and specialized light sources, such as synchrotrons and free electron lasers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 728g
• ISBN-13: 9781009236065
• ISBN-10: 1009236067
• Artikelnr.: 65504676

Autorenporträt

Greg Tallents is Professor in Physics at the York Plasma Institute at the University of York. He completed a Ph.D. in Engineering Physics at the Australian National University in the late 1970s and has since researched the physics and applications of laser-produced plasmas and short wavelength plasma lasers. He has written a textbook An Introduction to the Atomic and Radiation Physics of Plasmas published in 2018 by Cambridge University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. A brief introduction to special relativity and light
2. An introduction to relativistic kinematics, kinetics and energy
3. Relativity and electromagnetic fields
4. Electromagnetic wave interactions with plasma and other matter
5. Particle motion and radiation in electric and magnetic fields
6. Photon and particle distribution functions
7. Radiation emission, absorption and scatter in plasmas
8. Collisional processes
9. Relativistic optics
10. Solutions to selected exercises
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
References
Index.