THE HOLTSMARK DISTRIBUTION

HOLTSMARK, J.

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Leipzig, Ambrosius Barth, 1919. 8vo. In full black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Annalen der Physik", Vierte Folge, Band 58. Entire volume offered. Library labels to front end papers and stamp to title page, otherwise fine and clean. Pp. 577-630. [Entire volume: 760, VIII pp.].

First appearance of Holtsmark's important paper in which he for the first time introduced his "Holtsmark Distribution". The Holtsmark distribution has applications in plasma physics and astrophysics
J. Holtsmark proposed the distribution as a model for the fluctuating fields in plasma due to chaoticmotion of charged particles. It is also applicable to other types of Coulomb forces, in particular to modeling of gravitating bodies, and thus is important in astrophysics.

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