Case Studies in Atomic Collision Physics: II

E W McDaniel and M R C McDowell (eds) Amsterdam, North Holland 1972 pp xiv + 649 price $47 The second volume of Case Studies contains eight studies of atomic collision physics on the following subjects: threebody recombination of positive and negative ions by M R Flannery; precision measurements of electron transport coefficients by M T Elford; differential cross sections in electron impact ionization by H Ehrhardt et al ; interpretations of spectral intensities from laboratory and astrophysical plasmas by A H Gabriel and C Jordan; atomic processes in astrophysical plasmas by V Myerscough and G Peach; polarized orbital approximations by R J Drachman and A Temkin; photodetachment by B Steiner; and metastable particles in collision process by R D Rundel and R F Stebbings. A case study or case history is traditionally the story of an investigation which is closed.