Clusters and Small Particles
Subtitle: In Gases and Plasmas
By: by Boris M. Smirnov
Series: Graduate Texts in Contemporary Physics, 0938-037X; Graduate texts in contemporary physics
Publisher: Springer New York; Imprint; Springer
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9781461212942
Subjects: Physical organic Chemistry; Physics
Description: This book discusses small particles or clusters of atoms, molecules, as well as systems consisting of them. These are systems too large to be analyzed by the methods of particle dynamics, but too small to treated by the standard statistical techniques. The goal is to analyze the properties of such finite aggregates and their behavior in gases and plasmas, and to investigate processes that involve such clusters. The presentation is based on lectures and seminar problems for graduate students; the main part of the book thus includes more than 200 problems, each of them illustrating a specific aspect of finite systems of bound atoms and their behavior in gases and plasmas. Topics covered include: collisions, charge transfer, chemical reactions, condensed systems and their structures, kinetics of cluster growth, excited clusters, the transition from clusters to bulk particles, and small particles, dust, and aerosols in plasmas. Some reference data for corresponding parameters of systems under consideration are given in the problems and in the appendices. The book will be of interest to physicists, astrophysicists, and chemists.
Table of contents: title: Behavior of small particles in gases and plasmas; title: Interaction of small particles with electric and electromagnetic fields; title: Bulk systems of bound atoms with pair interaction; title: Structures of clusters with pair interaction of atoms; title: Processes and kinetics of cluster growth and decay; title: Clusters at nonzero temperature; title: Plasma with small particles or clusters.