Chapter#4: Plasma in Waves

All Short Questions of Plasma in Waves for the book Plasma Physics for BS/MSc Physics students.

Q.4.1 How group velocity is different from phase velocity?

Q.4.2 While studying waves in Plasma why do we do Linearization?

Q.4.3 Explain the dispersion relation of surface Plasma waves?

Q.4.4 Explain phase mixing in inhomogeneous plasma.

Q.4.5 Derive an expression for velocity of sound waves.

Q.4.6 Derive dispersion relation governing the linear propagation using Poisson’s equation.

Q.4.7 Why ion have fundamentally different character from electron waves?

Q.4.8 Show the dispersion relation for electrostatic electron oscillations.