1. Controlled thermonuclear fusion. 1.1. Introduction. 1.2. Ignition conditions. 1.3. Tokamaks. 1.4. Tokamak operating limits -- 2. Electron waves. 2.1. Maxwell equations. 2.2. Homogeneous plasmas. 2.3. Plane waves in cold homogeneous plasmas. 2.4. Wave polarization. 2.5. Wave p…
The science of magnetically confined plasmas covers the entire spectrum of physics from classical and relativistic electrodynamics to quantum mechanics. During the last sixty years of research, our initial primitive understanding of plasma physics has made impressive progress th…
