Fundamentals of Plasma Physics
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 1, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 628
ISBN-13: 9780521821162
Subjects: Plasma physics; Science; Science/Mathematics; Physics; Science / Physics
First sentence: In the mid nineteenth century the Czech physiologist Jan Evangelista Purkinje introduced use of the Greek word plasma (meaning "formed" or "molded") to denote the clear fluid that remains after removal of all the corpuscular material in blood.