ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews the important features of a plasma medium and sets the background for the next chapters. An introductory and popular book on plasma physics is by Eliezer and Eliezer (2001). For more serious studies of basic plasma physics, books by the following authors are recommended: Ginzburg (1961), Spitzer (1962), Schmidt (1966), Shkarofsky et al. (1966), Clemmow and Dougherty (1969), Krall and Trivelpiece (1973), Chen (1974), Nicholson (1983), Kruer (1988), Tajima (1989), Stix (1992), Dendy (1993), Ichimaru (1994), Goldston and Rutherford (1995), Hazeltine and Waelbroeck (1998), Salzmann (1998) and Hora (2000).
