Download or read book Plasma Engineering - Instabilities (An Engineer's Handbook on Plasma Instabilities). written by Ferdinand F. Cap and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second partial delivery of an Engineer's Handbook on plasma instabilities and their use, control, stabilization and engineering application. The book will be necessary for design and feasibility studies of thermonuclear fusion and other plasma engineering devices. The second delivery presents chapters 2 and 3 of the book. These are 2. Basic Plasma Physics (quasineutrality, plasma frequency, Debye length, collision frequency, gyro-radius, classification of plasmas, equation of state, Saha equation, Spitzer formula, plasma thermodynamics, plasma theories) and 3. The Physics of Instabilities (definition of mathematical and physical instabilities, unstable solutions of linear and nonlinear ordinary differential equations, linearized stability analysis, oscillations and waves, phase, phase velocity, wave number, dispersion relation, Nyquist diagramme, growth rates etc).