Physical kinetics

by Lifshit︠s︡, E. M., (Evgeniĭ Mikhaĭlovich)

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This volume is mainly concerned with a systematic development of the theory of plasmas, the authority being firmly rooted in the pioneering work of Landau. Corresponding results are also given for partially ionized plasmas, relativistic plasmas, degenerate or non-ideal plasmas and solid state plasmas.

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Full title :Physical kinetics / by E.M. Lifshitz and L.P. Pitaevskiĭ ; translated from the Russian by J.B. Sykes and R.N. Franklin.

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Publication Date:©1981

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Publisher(s):Butterworth-Heinemann, Elsevier
Place of Publication:Amsterdam
Language:eng
Publication Date:©1981

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Description:1 online resource (xi, 452 pages) : : illustrations.

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ISBN:1280581905, 9781280581908, 9786613611680, 6613611689
oclc:ocn787847146
LC Classification:QC718
Dewey Decimal:530.4/4

Front Cover; Physical Kinetics; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; PREFACE; NOTATION; CHAPTER I. KINETIC THEORY OF GASES; 1. The distribution function; 2. The principle of detailed balancing; 3. The Boltzmann transport equation; 4. The H theorem; 5. The change to macroscopic equations; 6. The transport equation for a slightly inhomogeneous gas; 7. Thermal conduction in the gas; 8. Viscosity in the gas; 9. Symmetry of the kinetic coefficients; 10. Approximate solution of the transport equation; 11. Diffusion of a light gas in a heavy gas; 12. Diffusion of a heavy gas in a light gas

13. Transport phenomena in a gas in an external field14. Phenomena in slightly rarefied gases; 15. Phenomena in highly rarefied gases; 16. Dynamical derivation of the transport equation; 17. The transport equation including three-particle collisions; 18. The virial expansion of the kinetic coefficients; 19. Fluctuations of the distribution function in an equilibrium gas; 20. Fluctuations of the distribution function in a non-equilibrium gas; CHAPTER II. THE DIFFUSION APPROXIMATION; 21. The Fokker-Planck equation; 22. A weakly ionized gas in an electric field

23. Fluctuations in a weakly ionized non-equ…