"Version: 20171101"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. States of matter -- 1.2. Characteristics of the gas phase -- 1.3. Gases and vapours -- 1.4. Phase diagrams and phase transitions : under what conditions is a substance a gas?2. Pressure and temperature -- 2.1. Pressu…
"Version: 20180401"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Overview -- 1.2. Classification of gas discharges -- 1.3. Summarypart I. Ionization -- 2. Foundations from gas dynamics -- 2.1. The atom, the molecule, and excited states -- 2.2. The statistics of a gas -- 2.3. Kinet…
"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction to the climate problem (short form) -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. It's warming -- 1.3. It's us -- 1.4. We're sure -- 1.5. It's bad -- 1.6. We can fix it (but we'd better hurry) -- 1.7. Chapter conclusions2. Introduction to climate solutions -- 2.1. Chapter introduction -- 2.2. Treat climate like the moral i…
"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.7. Transport equations for gas discharges -- 7.1. Equations for the charged particles -- 7.2. The drift-diffusion approximation -- 7.3. Summarypart III. Gas discharges and plasmas. 8. Discharge initiation and plasma formation -- 8.1. Townsend behavior below the breakdown threshold -- 8.2. Pressure times distance and reduc…