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Mechanical effects in a rarified plasma

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A study is made of various mechanical effects that arise in a rarified plasma and set macroscopic solid bodies into motion: the magnetomechanical effect, the mechanical surface effect, the attraction of macrobodies, the levitation of a body in a plasma, and the orientation of a levitating body. Attention is focused on the design and construction of relevant experiments and experimental tests, as well as on the interpretation of the phenomena observed. Possible applications of the mechanical effects in physics and engineering are discussed.

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Original Russian Text © A.E. Dubinov, S.A. Sadovoy, 2007, published in Fizika Plazmy, 2007, Vol. 33, No. 4, pp. 352–365.

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Dubinov, A.E., Sadovoy, S.A. Mechanical effects in a rarified plasma. Plasma Phys. Rep. 33, 316–328 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063780X07040071

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