Brownian motion of a charged particle in a magnetic field

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1288-1296

  Lemons, Don S ^a   Kaufman, David L ^a  

^a Bethel College Kansas   (United States)

Author keywords

Brownian motion; Collisions in plasma; Magnetized brownian motion; Stochastic processes

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; CHARGED PARTICLES; ENERGY DISSIPATION; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

LORENTZ FORCE;

PLASMA COLLISION PROCESSES;

EID: 0033204510     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.799805     Document Type: Article

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