From: bds@rzg.mpg.de (Bruce Scott TOK)
Newsgroups: sci.physics.plasma
Subject: Re: advice on plasma textbook
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References: <a1sm0r$cl7r$1@saturn.cs.uml.edu>


In article <a1sm0r$cl7r$1@saturn.cs.uml.edu>,
Maarten Jansen <maartenNOSPAM@iaqq.org> 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.

I recommend

K. Nishikawa and M. Wakatani,
Plasma Physics (new edition: Springer, 2000)

Formal but elegant, not swimming in detail that approach a list of
formulae as some tokamak books do.

Another one which is about stellarators and heliotrons but nevertheless
has much on the basics is

M. Wakatani,
Stellarator and Heliotron Devices (Oxford, 1998)

If you want more basic physics and don't mind the single-fluid
approximations, try

D. Biskamp,
Nonlinear Magnetohydrodynamics (Cambridge, 1993)

--
cu,
Bruce

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