An Introduction to gas discharges /

An Introduction to Gas Discharges: Second Edition aims to provide a compact introduction to the subject of gas discharges, which continues to make both scientific and industrial progress. In this second edition, the author has made minor corrections, rewritten and expanded some sections, used SI uni...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Howatson, A. M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Pergamon Press, 1976, �1965.
Edición:2d ed.
Colección:Applied electricity and electronics.
Temas:
Electric discharges through gases.
D�echarges �electriques dans les gaz.
SCIENCE > Physics > Electricity.
SCIENCE > Physics > Electromagnetism.
Electric discharges through gases
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover
  • An Introduction to Gas Discharges
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface To The First Edition
  • Preface To The Second Edition
  • CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION
  • 1.1. HISTORICAL
  • 1.2. TYPES OF DISCHARGE
  • CHAPTER 2. FUNDAMENTAL PROCESSES
  • 2.1. THE KINETIC THEORY OF A SIMPLE GAS
  • 2.2. ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR STRUCTURE
  • 2.3. COLLISIONS
  • 2.4. ABSORPTION AND EMISSION OF RADIATION
  • 2.5. MOBILITY
  • 2.6. DIFFUSION
  • 2.7. ELECTRODE EFFECTS
  • CHAPTER 3. BREAKDOWN
  • 3.1. THE TOWNSEND DISCHARGE
  • 3.2. EFFECT OF SPACE CHARGE
  • 3.3. effect of secondary emission3.4. effect of attachment
  • 3.5. similarity
  • 3.6. the townsend criterion
  • 3.7. paschen's law
  • 3.8. low-pressure breakdown in non-uniform fields
  • 3.9. time of breakdown
  • 3.10. breakdown at high pressures
  • 3.11. non-uniform field, high pressure: corona
  • 3.12. high-frequency breakdown
  • 3.13. effect of a magnetic field
  • chapter 4. the self-sustaining discharge
  • 4.1. the d.c. low-pressure glow discharge
  • 4.2. the high-pressure glow discharge
  • 4.3. the d.c. arc discharge
  • 4.4. a.c. discharges
  • CHAPTER 5. EQUILIBRIUM5.1. GENERAL
  • 5.2. DISTRIBUTION LAWS
  • 5.3. MAXWELL-BOLTZMANN STATISTICS
  • 5.4. EINSTEIN-BOSE AND FERMI-DIRAC STATISTICS
  • 5.5. IONIZATION�a�?THE SAHA EQUATION
  • 5.6. DETAILED BALANCING
  • 5.7. COLLISION RATES
  • 5.8. RADIATION
  • 5.9. EQUILIBRIUM IN A GAS DISCHARGE
  • 5.10. DEPARTURES FROM EQUILIBRIUM
  • 5.11. THE BOLTZMANN EQUATION
  • CHAPTER 6. PLASMA PROPERTIES
  • 6.1. THE POSITIVE COLUMN
  • 6.2 The Ionosphere
  • 6.3 Electromagnetic Waves in a Plasma
  • 6.4 High-temperature Plasmas
  • 6.5 Debye Screening
  • 6.6 Characteristic and Relaxation Times6.7 Plasma Oscillations
  • CHAPTER 7. PLASMA MEASUREMENTS
  • 7.1. PROBE MEASUREMENTS
  • 7.2. MEASUREMENTS FROM EMISSION SPECTRA
  • 7.3. MICROWAVE MEASUREMENTS
  • 7.4. OTHER MEASUREMENTS
  • CHAPTER 8. APPLICATIONS
  • 8.1. LIGHTING
  • 8.2. ELECTRON TUBES
  • 8.3. HEATING
  • 8.4. LASERS
  • 8.5. SW1TCHGEAR
  • 8.6. POWER GENERATION
  • PROBLEMS
  • Index

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