From: slidia@landau.ucdavis.edu (Steve Lidia)
Newsgroups: sci.physics.plasma
Subject: Re: Landau damping
Date: 20 Jan 1998 03:02:34 GMT
Organization: University of California, Davis
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Lutz Maibaum (maibaum@rz.uni-duesseldorf.de) wrote:

: I am looking for a derivation of the Landau damping formula, starting from
: the Vlasov equation. Does anyone know a source in which this is given in a
: correct but comprehensive way ?
Landau and Lifshitz, "Physical Kinetics", p. 124 is a good place to start.

Also, Nicholson, "Introduction to Plasma Theory".

: Lutz Maibaum
: University of Duesseldorf, Germany