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The heating rate of the particles of a given species under the influence of fluctuating electric fields in a plasma is calculated explicitly in terms of those physical parameters relevant to specification of the system: These are the average drift velocity and the velocity spread around it for the particles; the integrated strength, the peak frequency and the spectral width around it for the fluctuation spectrum. The effects arising from the correlation times of the fluctuations are elucidated through investigation of various limiting cases.
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