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Plasma physics and astrophysics

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Festkörperprobleme 11

Part of the book series: Advances in Solid State Physics ((ASSP,volume 11))

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Wir veranschaulichen die Bedeutung des astrophysischen Plasmas mit einer Besprechung einiger astrophysischen Probleme.

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  • We have not referred to literature in the body of the text, as we have only given a bird's eye view of the field. For those readers who want to study the field any further we give here a—highly prejudiced and personal—selected list. General coverage can be found in: Plasma Astrophysics (Ed. P. A. Sturrock), Academic Press 1967.

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  1. Department of Theoretical Physics, Oxford University, 12 Parks Road, OX1 3PQ, Oxford

    D. ter Haar

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ter Haar, D. (1971). Plasma physics and astrophysics. In: Madelung, O. (eds) Festkörperprobleme 11. Advances in Solid State Physics, vol 11. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0107692

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