V knige dano izlozhenie fiziki plazmy kak razdela sovremennoj fiziki v raschete na shirokuyu fizicheskuyu auditoriyu, imeyushhuyu delo s plazmennymi yavleniyami vne sobstvenno fiziki plazmy. V etoj svyazi sistematicheski proslezhivayutsya plazmennye analogii v fizike sploshnoj sredy, fizike tverdogo tela i poluprovodnikov, geofizike, astrofizike i t.d.
Specialisty po fizike plazmy mogut pocherpnut′ iz knigi informaciyu o rasprostranenii idej i predstavlenij o razlichnych processach, protekayushhich v plazme, na smezhnye oblasti fiziki.
Dannaya kniga predstavlyaet soboj zadumannoe akademikom L.A. Arcimovichem sistematicheskoe razvitie kratkogo kursa lekcij «CHto kazhdyj fizik dolzhen znat′ o plazme». CHtenie knigi predpolagaet podgotovku na urovne universitetskogo kursa obshhej fiziki.
Kniga prednaznachena dlya fizikov i inzhenerov-fizikov shirokogo profilya.
Artsimovich L. A., Sagdeev R. Z.
Plasma Physics for Physicists
Acad. Lev Artsimovich, soon after he completed a shorter version «What should every physicist know about Plasma», invited Acad. Roald Sagdeev as coauthor. He decided to fill it with appropriate theoretical guideline and convert it into Basic course on Physics of Hot Plasmas, which could be used by much broader audience then fusion community only.
But unfortunately Acad. Lev Artsimovich left unfinished this book. Joint work was revised and finished by coauthor in 1978 in order to give up-to-date picture of principal ideas in the field of Hot Plasma Physics, originated mainly by fusion research. Later they diffused to space plasma, to astrophysics as well as to solid-state plasma.
To read this book it requires the knowledge of basic physics of university level.
