Laser Plasma Physics: Forces and the Nonlinearity Principle (Press Monograph)

The second edition of this book can well be based on all that was said in the preface to the first edition about summarizing the solid knowledge. On this knowledge, the later plasma theory was based since the beginning in 1845 by Kelvin with forces in electrodynamics on electrically neutral materials with no electric charges if there is a dielectric response. This force of ponderomotion is basically nonlinear by combining mechanical macroscopic forces with quadratic terms of the force quantities of electric and magnetic fields.