Free Plasma Physics Book

MSimon · Post by **MSimon** » Sat Dec 27, 2008 9:28 am

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http://ebookhelp4u.blogspot.com/2008/12 ... ition.html

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I have a link to the hard copy edition here:

http://iecfusiontech.blogspot.com/2008/ ... -book.html

drmike · Post by **drmike** » Sat Dec 27, 2008 4:50 pm

Got it. It looks like a great introduction to plasmas and fusion power and it is only 2 years old, so it has a lot of references to ITER and similar experiments. Lite on the math from my perspective, but that's a good thing for most people trying to figure this out for the first time.

The first part of the book is about why fusion is useful, so that is a boon for the evangelists. There are some good reasons to go after fusion, even if it means 100 more years of research. The second part of the book goes into more details on plasma physics, but in a pretty gentle way. For everyone out there who wants to understand all the technical arguments I'd think this is a great place to start.

alexjrgreen · Post by **alexjrgreen** » Sat Dec 27, 2008 8:48 pm

If you treat energy separately from momentum it's really hard to keep the bookkeeping straight.

Better to take the harder option and use quaternions:

http://www.ptep-online.com/index_files/ ... -17-03.PDF

That way you know you haven't missed anything...

Josh Cryer · Post by **Josh Cryer** » Sat Dec 27, 2008 10:52 pm

The legality of this is questionable, just fyi. Not that I necessarily care, I am only suggesting that one might consider it. Thanks for the find, though, a bit over my head so no harm no foul.

MSimon · Post by **MSimon** » Sat Dec 27, 2008 11:15 pm

There is no way this could have been done by anyone but the authors IMO.

In fact giving away free pdfs is one way to increase sales.

Josh Cryer · Post by **Josh Cryer** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 2:29 am

I went to their C++ section and saw that they have C++ primer, which I legally acquired from O'Reilly's digital ebooks: http://i42.tinypic.com/2gtro8y.png

Make that of what you will.