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Part of a series reporting developments in Soviet physics research, this book explores such topics as a kinetic description of the motion of plasma particles, the excitation of a collisionless shock wave and the acceleration of ions when a plasma expands into a plasma.

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Part of a series reporting to the West on developments in Soviet physics research, this book proceeds from a kinetic description of the motion of plasma particles, taking into account their interaction with the self-consistent electric field, to investigate the excitation of a collisionless shock wave and the acceleration of ions when a plasma expands into a plasma. At low ion temperatures a special type of wave front instability is shown to occur. Other titles in this series include "Optics of Chiral Liquid Crystals" and "An Experimental Study of Quasi-Particles in Antiferromagnetic Materials".