The article has already achieved Good Article status, so I figure that Peer review is the next step for improvement, with an aim to eventually reach Featured Article status.
I realize that this is a very broad and complex subject, but it should still be readable and interesting to everyone. --Iantresman 11:00, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
The article appears to suffer from a lack of technical information, though it is very good in the contextual sense. For example, a typical outline for a course on plasma physics includes:
"The concept of temperature (particularly related to the fact that plasmas are notoriously out of local thermodynamic equilibrium; the conditions of density and temperature necessary for the plasma state; discussion of fusion; motion of single charged particles in static and time varying electric and magnetic fields; plasmas described as (charged) fluids or magnetohydrodynamics; waves in plasmas; plasma heating with radio waves; kinetic theory description of plasmas including diffusion with and without magnetic fields; Debye shielding of a charge; Vlasov equation and collisionless plasmas; Landau dampening of waves; BGK single relaxation time model description of collisions; transport calculations of mass (diffusion); momentum (viscosity) and energy (heat conductivity)." from [1].
Other topics include:
"Klimontovich equation, Fokker Planck equation, Coulomb collisions, PIC Particle simulation, Atomic collisions, Sheaths & probes, Dusty plasmas, and Quasilinear theory" [2]
It would be good for all of these subjects to at least be mentioned (more than a few of them already are!), if not have paragraphs or sections devoted to them. These are considered by professionals in the field to be some of the basic concepts inherent to the subject.
--ScienceApologist 02:40, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
Plasma parameters right now only deals with scaling in plasmas. There are a wide range of other ideas which are technical/mathematical but can be described for a general audience in the lists above. --ScienceApologist 13:01, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
I came to Wikipedia's "Plasma" article looking for some introduction to solid-state plasmas, studied by Betsy Ancker-Johnson for example, and for which I found a short biblio here. While I majored in physics (long ago) I'm completely unfamiliar with the term, and believe the article would benefit from some clarification of non-gaseous plasmas, such as "electron-hole plasma". If this is an obsolete use of the word, a clarification still seems called for. Thanks. Twang 07:27, 9 March 2007 (UTC)