The Left Hand of the Electron [SEP] publisher
The Left Hand of the Electron
The Left Hand of the Electron is a collection of seventeen nonfiction science essays by American writer and scientist Isaac Asimov, first published by Doubleday & Company in 1972. It was the ninth of a series of books collecting essays from "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction". The title comes from the topic of the first section which deals with chirality of electroweak interactions and chirality of organic compounds and the possible connection between the two. Other essays in this book concern the effect of electron
and work with order-1 equations. Since we do not work with formula_26due to the polytropic assumption (but we do "not" assume it is zero), to alleviate notation we use formula_27for formula_28. Using the ion continuity equation, the ion momentum equation becomes
We relate the electric field formula_30 to the electron density by the electron momentum equation:
We now neglect the left-hand side, which is due to electron inertia. This is valid for waves with frequencies much less than the electron plasma frequency formula_32. This