Experiments on Supersonic Plasma Flow Along Magnetic Fields

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. It is clear that for an extremely dilute plasma in a strong external field, Alfven perturbation theory provides answers to these questions. However we are here concerned with the domain of parameters in which the plasma flow acts strongly upon the magnetic field. The result is a self -consistent problem and is more difficult. (see however.