Theory, experiments and calculations related the physics of plasmas, i.e., matter constituted by ionized atoms.
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Does phase lead or lag in a plasma?
Plasmas have an index of refraction less than 1. So say you sent one beam of light through a plasma and another one along a path just as long but in free space. Is the plasma beam's phase lead or lag ...
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Effect of electric field of plasma sheaths
How will an electric fields affect the formation of plasma sheaths?
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Who invented the term “Coulomb logarithm”?
Who is the author of the term "Coulomb logarithm"? In fact, Coulomb logarithm was computed by Langmuir in his paper of 1928 where the term "plasma" was introduced into physics, but the term "Coulomb ...
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After quantization of electron vibrations, do we need electrons anyway?
The title question is not ment in a general context, but one in which goes to the plasmon theory.
In that case, how is are the statistics (boson vs. fermions) of plasmons determined?
And is there an ...
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How strong a solar flare needs to be to be easily seen on a projected white light image?
The first and the storgest solar flare so far is detected by simply projecting the Sun with optics on a paper. The flare was so intense that it was brighter than the photosphere beneath it.
Nowadays ...
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Is the quantum magnetic field effect real?
Does this http://www.lawrencevilleplasmaphysics.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=63&Itemid=81 make sense to you guys? Is there any reason it wouldn't work. It seems like ...
