Overview
- Author is top expert in this field
- A broad ranging and accessible treatment
- Essential reading for astrophysicists
- Basic background for plasma physics and nuclear fusion technology
Part of the book series: The Frontiers Collection (FRONTCOLL)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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With its many beautiful colour pictures, this book gives fascinating insights into the unusual forms and behaviour of matter under extremely high pressures and temperatures. These extreme states are generated, among other things, by strong shock, detonation and electric explosion waves, dense laser beams, electron and ion beams, hypersonic entry of spacecraft into dense atmospheres of planets, and in many other situations characterized by extremely high pressures and temperatures.
Written by one of the world's foremost experts on the topic, this book will inform and fascinate all scientists dealing with materials properties and physics, and also serve as an excellent introduction to plasma-, shock-wave and high-energy-density physics for students and newcomers seeking an overview.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Vladimir Fortov is one of Russia's leading physicists, a senior member of the Academy of Sciences, and a world expert on the topic of matter under extreme conditions. He has carried out many pioneering experiments, among others experimentally confirming the "plasma phase transitions" long predicted by eminent scientists such as Eugene Wigner, Lev Landau and Klaus von Klitzing. He was also in charge of experiments carried out aboard the MIR and ISS space stations.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Extreme States of Matter
Book Subtitle: on Earth and in the Cosmos
Authors: Vladimir E. Fortov
Series Title: The Frontiers Collection
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16464-4
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-16464-4Published: 16 November 2010
Series ISSN: 1612-3018
Series E-ISSN: 2197-6619
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 332
Additional Information: Originally published by FizMathLit, Moscow, 2008
Topics: Astrophysics and Astroparticles, Atoms and Molecules in Strong Fields, Laser Matter Interaction, Plasma Physics, Materials Science, general, Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices, Phase Transitions and Multiphase Systems