Böcker av D. B. Melrose

This is an advanced text on electromagnetic theory, presenting a systematic discussion of electromagnetic waves and radiation processes in a wide variety of media. The treatment, taken from the field of plasma physics, is based on the dielectric tensor, and this permits the discussion of media outside the scope of the usual approach adopted in most textbooks on electromagnetism.

This introductory account of instabilities in plasmas concentrates on laboratory plasmas such as those encountered in fusion research, and the space plasmas studied in physics of the magnetosphere and solar atmosphere. It bridges the gap between a graduate textbook on plasma physics and specialist monographs, stressing the similarities between astrophysics and laboratory plasmas.