This person's namesake equation is the Boltzmann equation with a first- order plasma kinetic collision term and his namesake damping corresponds to a complex zero near the border of the Nyquist diagram for a Vlasov plasma.
This person's namesake equation is the Boltzmann equation with a first- order plasma kinetic collision term and his namesake damping corresponds to a complex zero near the border of the Nyquist diagram for a Vlasov plasma. The form of his namesake function is derived by using an adiabatic approximation for the vector potential and gives the free energy for a conductor; this free energy is used to derive the equation of superconductivity named for Ginsburg and him. The author of the Course of Theoretical Physics series with E. M. Lifshits, this scientist explained Kapitsa's result of superfluid helium II; for this explanation, he won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physics. For ten points, name this Soviet theoretical physicist who was incapacitated by a 1962 car accident.
This person's namesake equation is the Boltzmann equation with a first- order plasma kinetic collision term and his namesake damping corresponds to a complex zero near the border of the Nyquist diagram for a Vlasov plasma.
Lev Davidovich {Landau}