TIME SCALES IN THE DYNAMICS OF THE LORENTZ ELECTRON-GAS

Authors
Citation
J. Piasecki, TIME SCALES IN THE DYNAMICS OF THE LORENTZ ELECTRON-GAS, American journal of physics, 61(8), 1993, pp. 718-722
Citations number
7
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
ISSN journal
00029505
Volume
61
Issue
8
Year of publication
1993
Pages
718 - 722
Database
ISI
SICI code
0002-9505(1993)61:8<718:TSITDO>2.0.ZU;2-Z
Abstract
The dynamics of the classical Lorentz electron gas acted upon by an ex ternal field is studied. The aim of the paper is to provide an instruc tive example of the application of the multiple time-scale method. The subtlety and the rich physical content of the problem show in the app earance of quite different stages in the evolution of the gas: switchi ng on effects of the field, quasistationary linear response regime, lo ng-time field dominated heating of the gas. The results reported here had been obtained previously in a different way.