From: shawn@young.net (Shawn)
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Subject: Re: advice on plasma textbook
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Mike Rosing <rosing@neurophys.wisc.edu> wrote in message news:<a24q1g$uqv$1@saturn.cs.uml.edu>...
> Maarten Jansen wrote:
> >
> > Greetings plasma people,
> >
> > I'm looking for a textbook on plasma physics at the beginning graduate
> > level, possibly in the style of Jackson's Classical Electrodynamics, i.e.
> > from the physics viewpoint, as opposed to applied mathematics, for which my
> > knowledge of the Cambridge dialect is insufficient.
>
> My books are all 20 years old and out of print. I'd be very interested
> in
> what the latest books are too. Amazon lists some 500 books on plasma
> physics!
> They range in price from $8 to $800 too. So it'd be nice to hear what
> people
> like to teach with these days.
>
> Patience, persistence, truth,
> Dr. mike


I used 2 different introductory plasma books.

Plasma Physics (1995)
by R J Goldston and P H Rutherford

This text is published by the Institute of Physics and is an advanced
undergraduate to graduate physics level book. It includes classical
plasma physics topics as well as giving a brief introduction to
numerical mapping techniques (with accompanying PC and Mac programs).
I liked this text, which included details that seem to be slighted in
other texts.

Introduction to Plasma theory (1992 reprint of the 1983 edition)
Dwight R. Nicholson

This one is published by Krieger Publishing Company and has been
around longer, and again is at the level you were interested in.
While there are things I like about Goldston and Rutherford's book
better, I find myself referring to this one more often. Possibly
because it was the text used in a more recent course.