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Collective perturbations in bounded plasmas -- Confinement in fusion devices -- Fluid equations for low frequency phenomena -- Fluid motion perpendicular to the magnetic field -- Electromagnetic drifts -- Interpretation of drifts -- Conservation of charge density and quasi-neutrality -- The energy equation -- Finite Larmor radius effects in a fluid description -- Effects of temperature gradients -- Fluid analysis of low frequency modes driven by inhomogeneities -- Drift waves -- Elementary picture of drift waves -- Effects of finite ion inertia -- Drift instability -- Excitation by electron-ion collisions -- MHD-type modes -- Interchange modes -- The convective cell mode -- Electromagnetic interchange modes -- Kink modes -- Stabilization of electrostatic interchange modes by parallel electron motion -- FLR stabilization of interchange modes -- Kinetic ALFVEN waves -- Quasi-linear diffusion -- Confinement time -- Kinetic description of low frequency modes in inhomogeneous plasma -- Integration along unperturbed orbits -- Universal instability -- Interchange instability -- Drift ALFVEN waves and [beta] limitation -- Landau damping -- The magnetic drift mode -- The drift kinetic equation -- Dielectric properties of low frequency vortex modes -- Finite Larmor radius effects obtained by orbit averaging -- Low frequency modes in inhomogeneous magnetic fields -- Anomalous transport in systems with inhomogeneous magnetic fields -- Toroidal mode structure -- Curvature relations -- The influence of magnetic shear on drift waves.
