Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I Idealized homogeneous systems – basic ideas and gentle relaxation
- 1 The average and fluctuating gravitational fields
- 2 Gentle relaxation: timescales
- 3 The dynamics of random impulsive forces
- 4 General properties of Fokker–Planck evolution
- 5 Fokker–Planck description of gravitating systems
- 6 Dynamics with a memory: non-Markovian evolution
- 7 The Boltzmann equation
- 8 Some properties of the Boltzmann equation
- 9 The virial theorem
- 10 The grand description – Liouville's equation and entropy
- 11 Extracting knowledge: the BBGKY hierarchy
- 12 Extracting knowledge: the Fourier development
- 13 Collective effects – grexons
- 14 Collective scattering
- 15 Linear response and dispersion relations
- 16 Damping and decay
- 17 Star-gas interactions
- 18 Problems and extensions
- 19 Bibliography
- Part II Infinite inhomogeneous systems – galaxy clustering
- Part III Finite spherical systems – clusters of galaxies, galactic nuclei, globular clusters
- Part IV Finite flattened systems – galaxies
- Index
14 - Collective scattering
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2011
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I Idealized homogeneous systems – basic ideas and gentle relaxation
- 1 The average and fluctuating gravitational fields
- 2 Gentle relaxation: timescales
- 3 The dynamics of random impulsive forces
- 4 General properties of Fokker–Planck evolution
- 5 Fokker–Planck description of gravitating systems
- 6 Dynamics with a memory: non-Markovian evolution
- 7 The Boltzmann equation
- 8 Some properties of the Boltzmann equation
- 9 The virial theorem
- 10 The grand description – Liouville's equation and entropy
- 11 Extracting knowledge: the BBGKY hierarchy
- 12 Extracting knowledge: the Fourier development
- 13 Collective effects – grexons
- 14 Collective scattering
- 15 Linear response and dispersion relations
- 16 Damping and decay
- 17 Star-gas interactions
- 18 Problems and extensions
- 19 Bibliography
- Part II Infinite inhomogeneous systems – galaxy clustering
- Part III Finite spherical systems – clusters of galaxies, galactic nuclei, globular clusters
- Part IV Finite flattened systems – galaxies
- Index
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- Gravitational Physics of Stellar and Galactic Systems , pp. 77 - 94Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1985