Download or read book A Theoretical Treatment of the Steady-flow, Linear, Crossed-field, Direct-current Plasma Accelerator for Inviscid, Adiabatic, Isothermal, Constant-area Flow written by George P. Wood and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theory is developed from the individual equations of motion of the three components of the plasma. The effect of the ion cyclotron angle ωr, which is the product of the ion cyclotron frequency and the ion mean free time between collisions with neutral particles and which is proportional to the axial component of the ion slip velocity, on both Joule heating rate and accelerator length is included in the results and is shown to be small only for values of about 10−3 radian or less.