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Informationen zum Autor Greg Tallents is Professor in Physics at the York Plasma Institute at the University of York. He completed a Ph.D. in Engineering Physics at the Australian National University in the late 1970s and has since researched the physics and applications of laser-produced plasmas and short wavelength plasma lasers. He has written a textbook An Introduction to the Atomic and Radiation Physics of Plasmas published in 2018 by Cambridge University Press. Klappentext "Aimed at students and researchers in physics and astrophysics, this textbook introduces the topic of special relativity, with an emphasis upon light-matter interaction and light in plasma. Includes discussion of important applications such as high power laser interactions and specialized light sources, such as synchrotrons and free electron lasers"-- Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. A brief introduction to special relativity and light; 2. An introduction to relativistic kinematics, kinetics and energy; 3. Relativity and electromagnetic fields; 4. Electromagnetic wave interactions with plasma and other matter; 5. Particle motion and radiation in electric and magnetic fields; 6. Photon and particle distribution functions; 7. Radiation emission, absorption and scatter in plasmas; 8. Collisional processes; 9. Relativistic optics; 10. Solutions to selected exercises; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; References; Index.
