Preface.
Notation
I.KINETICTHEORYOFGASES
1.Thedistributionfunction
2.Theprincipleofdetailedbalancing
3.ThcBoltzmanntransportequation
4.TheHtheorem
5.Thechangetomacroscopicequations
6.Thetransportequationforaslightlyinhomogeneousgas
7.Thermalconductioninthegas
8.Viscosityinthegas
9.Symmetryofthekineticcoefficients
10.Approximatesolutionofthetransportequation
11.Diffusionofalightgasinaheavygas
12.Diffusionofaheavygasinalightgas
13.Transportphenomenainagasinanexternalfield
14.Phenomenainslightlyrarefiedgases
15.Phenomenainhighlyrarefiedgases
16,Dynamicalderivationofthetransportequation
17.Thetransportequationincludingthree-particlecollisions
18.Thevirialexpansionofthekineticcoefficients
19.Fluctuationsofthedistributionfunctioninanequilibriumgas
20.Fluctuationsofthedistributionfunctioninanon-equilibriumgas
II.THEDIFFUSIONAPPROXIMATION
21.TheFokker-Planckequation
22.Aweaklyionizedgasinanelectricfield
23.Fluctuationsinaweaklyionizednon-equilibriumgas
24.Recombinationandionization
25.Ambipolardiffusion
26.Ionmobilityinsolutionsofstrongelectrolytes
III.COLLISIONLESSPLASMAS
27.Theself-consistentfield
28.Spatialdispersioninplasmas
29.Thepermittivityofacollisionlessplasma
30.Landaudamping
31.PermittivityofaMaxweUianplasma
32.Longitudinalplasmawaves
33.Ion-soundwaves
34.Relaxationoftheinitialperturbation
35.Plasmaechoes
36.Adiabaticelectroncapture
37.Quasi-neutralplasmas
38.Fluidtheoryforatwo-temperatureplasma
39.Solitonsinaweaklydispersingmedium
40.Permittivityofadegeneratecollisionlessplasma
IV.COLLISIONSINPLASMAS
41.TheLandaucollisionintegral
42.Energytransferbetweenelectronsandions
43.Meanfreepathofplasmaparticles
44.Lorentzianplasmas
45.Runawayelectrons
46.Convergentcollisionintegrals
47.Interactionviaplasmawaves
48.Plasmaabsorptioninthehigh-frequencylimit
49.Quasi-lineartheoryofLandaudamping
50.Thetransportequationforarelativisticplasma..
51.Fluctuationsinplasmas
V.PLASMASINMAGNETICFIELDS
52.Permittivityofacollisionlesscoldplasma
53.Thedistributionfunctioninamagneticfield
54.PermittivityofamagnetoactiveMaxwellianplasma
55.Landaudampinginmagnetoactiveplamas
56.Electromagneticwavesinamagnetoactivecoldplasma
57.Effectofthermalmotiononelectromagneticwavepropagationinmagnetoactiveplasmas
58.Equationsoffluiddynamicsinamagnetoactiveplasma
59.Transportcoefficientsofaplasmainastrongmagneticfield
60.Thedriftapproximation
VI.INSTABILITYTHEORY
61.Beaminstability
62.Absoluteandconvectiveinstabilities
63.Amplificationandnon-transparency
64.Instabilitywithweakcouplingofthetwobranchesoftheoscillationspectrum
65.Instabilityinfinitesystems
VII.INSULATORS
66.Interactionofphonons
67.Thetransportequationforphononsinaninsulator
68.Thermalconductionininsulators.Hightemperatures
69.Thermalconductionininsulators.Lowtemperatures
70.Phononscatteringbyimpurities
71.Phonongasdynamicsininsulators
72.Soundabsorptionininsulators.Longwaves
73.Soundabsorptionininsulators.Shortwaves
VIII.QUANTUMLIQUIDS
74.Transportequationforquasi-particlesinaFermiliquid
75.ThermalconductivityandviscosityofaFermiliquid
76.SoundabsorptioninaFermiliquid
77.Transportequationforquasi-particlesinaBoseliquid
IX.METALS
78.Residualresistance
79.Electron-phononinteraction
80.Transportcoefficientsinmetals.Hightemperatures
81.Umklappprocessesinmetals
82.Transportcoefficientsinmetals.Lowtemperatures
83.ElectrondiffusionontheFermisurface
84.Galvanomagneticphenomenainstrongfields.Generaltheory
85.Galvanomagneticphenomenainstrongfields.Particularcases
86.Anomalousskineffect
87.Skineffectintheinfra-redrange
88.Heliconwavesinmetals
89.Magnetoplasmawavesinmetals
90.Quantumoscillationsoftheconductivityofmetalsinamagneticfield
X.THEDIAGRAMTECHNIQUEFORNON-EQUILIBRIUMSYSTEMS
91.TheMatsubarasusceptibility
92.Green'sfunctionsforanon-equilibriumsystem
93.Thediagramtechniquefornon-equilibriumsystems
94.Self-energyfunctions
95.Thetransportequationinthediagramtechnique
XI.SUPERCONDUCTORS
96.High-frequencypropertiesofsuperconductors.Generalformula
97.High-frequencypropertiesofsuperconductors.Limitingcases
98.Thermalconductivityofsuperconductors
XII.KINETICSOFPHASETRANSITIONS
99.Kineticsoffirst-orderphasetransitions.Nucleation
100.Kineticsoffirst-orderphasetransitions.Coalescence
101.Relaxationoftheorderparameternearasecond-orderphasetransition
102.Dynamicalscaleinvariance
103.Relaxationinliquidheliumnearthe,λ-point
Index.