《经典数学丛书》是一套专门收入Springer以前出版现已成为很受欢迎的经典图书的系列丛书，旨在不断满足新一代年轻学生和研究人员的需要。  等离子体物理学是研究等离子体的形成、性质和运动规律的物理学分支学科。等离子体是宇宙中物质存在的主要形式，太阳及其他恒星、脉冲星、许多星际物质、地球电离层、极光、电离气体等都是等离子体。本书初版于1975年，2002年Springer将此书重印并编入该丛书。本书是根据作者在曼彻斯特大学和康耐尔大学的代数拓扑讲义编写而成，但内容比一年级研究生用的代数拓扑教材深。

Preace

1 Introduction

 1.1 Introduction

 1.2 Thermonuclear fusion

 1.3 Plasmas in space

 1.4 Plasma characteristics

2 Particle orbit theory

 2.1 Introduction

 2.2 Constant homogeneous magntic field

 2.3 Constant homogencous electric and magnetic fields

 2.4 Inhomogeneous magnetic field

 2.5 Particl drifts and Plasma currents

 2.6 Time-varying magnetic field and adiabatic invariance

 2.7 Magnetic mirrors

 2.8 The longitudinal adiabytic invariant

 2.9 Magnetic flux as an adiabatic invarinat

 2.10 Particle orbits in tokamaks

 2.11 Adiabatic invariance and particle acceleration

 2.12 Polarization drift

 2.13 Particle motion at relativistic energies

 2.14 The ponderomotive force

 2.15 The guiding centre approzimation：a postscript

 Exercises

3 Macroscopic equations

 3.1 Introduction

 3.2 Fluid description of a Plasma

 3.3 The MHD equations

 3.4 Applicability of the MHD equations

 3.5 Plasma wave equations

 3.6 Boundary conditions

 Exercises

4 Ideal magnetohydrodynamics

 4.1 Introduction

 4.2 Conservation relations

 4.3 Static equilibria

 4.4 Solar MHD equilibria

 4.5 Stability of ideal MHD equilibria

 4.6 The energy principle

 4.7 Interchange instabilities

 4.8 Ideal MHD waves

 Exercises

5 Resistive magnetogydrodynamics

6 Waves in unbounded homogeneous plasmas

7 Cllisionless kinetic theory

8 Collisional kinetic theory

9 Plasma radiation

10 Non-linear plasma physics

11 Aspects of inhomogeneous plasmas

12 The classical theory of plasmas

Appendix 1 Numerical values of physical constants and plasma parameters

Appendix 2 List of symbols

References

Index