Greg Tallents

Introduction to Special Relativity for Radiation and Plasma Physics (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

An introduction to special relativity and its applications, with an emphasis on the interaction and production of light in plasma.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009236102
• Artikelnr.: 70911596

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.