Cold Wave Plasma Dispersion
Cold Wave Plasma Dispersion
This Demonstration solves for the dielectric tensor in the cold plasma wave dispersion relation, which determines the frequency as a function of wavenumber for waves independent of temperature in a plasma. All frequencies are normalized to the electron plasma frequency. The variable is the wavenumber in units of . In the graph, is scaled to and is scaled to , where is the electron plasma frequency.
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