Plasma Waves

Reviews / Votes

"It's a fine text, and I use it with my graduate students as a tutorial text in my laboratory research."
- Professor Christopher Watts

"This is a revised and extended version of a book that has already proved its value as an advanced text at the postgraduate level. It contains a careful account of many of the properties of waves using the various possible levels of approach, and a good selection of graphs and surface plots that are a great help to the reader in visualizing the behavior of wave dispersion relations ... . Any student who masters the material in this book and works through the problems it contains will have a very solid grounding in the theory of wave propagation. Research workers in the field will find it to be a comprehensive source of information on waves, including a number of topics that have only been found in research papers until now. I think this is a very welcome addition to the literature, which will be a valuable resource for teachers and researchers ... . Swanson's book is certainly worth a place on the bookshelves of anyone who needs to know about plasma waves."
-R.A. Cairns in Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion