Plasma Physics Reports -- April 2002 Volume 28, Issue 4, pp. 259-366 MAGNETIC CONFINEMENT SYSTEMS Analytic Examples of Force-Free Toroidal MHD Equilibria A. A. Martynov and S. Yu. Medvedev pp. 259-267 Full Text: PDF (304 kB) Dynamics of Ion Heating in a Gas-Dynamic Trap during Neutral Beam Injection A. A. Zuev, A. A. Ivanov, A. N. Karpushov, E. Yu. Kolesnikov, S. V. Murakhtin, and S. L. Strogalova pp. 268-273 Full Text: PDF (208 kB) PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS Diagnostics of Plasma Oscillations by the Field of Surface Waves Guided by a Dielectric Waveguide G. A. Markov and I. V. Khazanov pp. 274-285 Full Text: PDF (148 kB) PLASMA DYNAMICS Numerical Modeling of the Dynamics of a Slow Z-Pinch A. S. Kingsep, V. E. Karpov, A. I. Lobanov, Y. Maron, A. A. Starobinets, and V. I. Fisher pp. 286-295 Full Text: PDF (394 kB) Dynamics of an Al Wire Corona of a Megaampere Z-pinch P. Kubes, J. Kravárik, O. Renner, E. Krouský, Yu. L. Bakshaev, P. I. Blinov, A. S. Chernenko, E. M. Gordeev, S. A. Dan'ko, V. D. Korolev, and A. Yu. Shashkov pp. 296-302 Full Text: PDF (251 kB) RADIATION IN PLASMA Polarization Mechanism for Bremsstrahlung and Radiative Recombination in a Plasma with Heavy Ions V. A. Astapenko, L. A. Bureyeva, and V. S. Lisitsa pp. 303-311 Full Text: PDF (111 kB) NONLINEAR PHENOMENA Current Filaments in Plasmas B. A. Trubnikov pp. 312-326 Full Text: PDF (379 kB) SPACE PLASMA Calculation of the Electric Field in Space Plasma near a Conducting Sphere Injecting an Electron Beam E. K. Kolesnikov pp. 327-334 Full Text: PDF (102 kB) OSCILLATIONS AND WAVES IN PLASMA Propagation of MHD Waves in a Plasma in a Sheared Magnetic Field with Straight Field Lines P. N. Mager and D. Yu. Klimushkin pp. 335-341 Full Text: PDF (83 kB) PARTICLE MOTION Boundary of the Adiabatic Motion of a Charged Particle in a Dipole Magnetic Field S. N. Kuznetsov and B. Yu. Yushkov pp. 342-350 Full Text: PDF (127 kB) BEAMS IN PLASMA Nonlinear Interaction of an Annular Electron Beam with Azimuthal Surface Waves V. O. Girka and S. Yu. Puzyr'kov pp. 351-358 Full Text: PDF (94 kB) LOW-TEMPERATURE PLASMA Scanning Calorimetry Measurements of the Energy Parameters of a Plasmochemical Polymer Oxidation Reaction A. N. Magunov pp. 359-366 Full Text: PDF (117 kB)