Introduction to Plasma Physics Book

	Preface
	Introduction
1	Introduction to plasmas	1
Unit 1	Single-Particle Motion	19
2	Particle drifts in uniform fields	21
3	Particle drifts in non-uniform magnetic fields	29
4	Particle drifts in time-dependent fields	49
5	Mappings	69
Unit 2	Plasmas as Fluids	83
6	Fluid equations for a plasma	85
7	Relation between fluid equations and guiding-center drifts	97
8	Single-fluid magnetohydrodynamics	115
9	Magnetohydrodynamic equilibrium	129
Unit 3	Collisional Processes in Plasmas	145
10	Fully and partially ionized plasmas	147
11	Collisions in fully ionized plasmas	165
12	Diffusion in plasmas	185
13	The Fokker-Planck equation for Coulomb collisions	219
14	Collisions of fast ions in a plasma	229
Unit 4	Waves in a Fluid Plasma	247
15	Basic concepts of small-amplitude waves in anisotropic dispersive media	249
16	Waves in an unmagnetized plasma	257
17	High-frequency waves in a magnetized plasma	269
18	Low-frequency waves in a magnetized plasma	285
Unit 5	Instabilities in a Fluid Plasma	309
19	The Rayleigh-Taylor and flute instabilities	311
20	The resistive tearing instability	337
21	Drift waves and instabilities	363
Unit 6	Kinetic Theory of Plasmas	385
22	The Vlasov equation	387
23	Kinetic effects on plasma waves: Vlasov's treatment	397
24	Kinetic effects on plasma waves: Landau's treatment	409
25	Velocity-space instabilities and nonlinear theory	429
26	The drift-kinetic equation and kinetic drift waves	449
	App. A Physical quantities and their SI units	477
	App. B Equations in the SI system	478
	App. C Physical constants	479
	App. D Useful vector formulae	480
	App. E Differential operators in cartesian and curvilinear coordinates	482
	App. F Suggestions for further reading	485
	Index	487