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Here s the translation of the text you provided: Introduction. Basic concepts and characteristic quantities of an ionized medium (density, temperature and thermal velocity, collision frequency, Debye length, plasma frequency). Propagation in a homogeneous cold multi-component plasma: Constitutive relations and determination of plasma conductivity and permittivity. Electrostatic and electromagnetic waves in unmagnetized plasma. Propagation rates in magnetized plasma along and transverse to the magnetic field (electromagnetic and whistler waves, cyclotron and hybrid resonances, cutoffs). Propagation in a magnetic fluid: Magnetohydrodynamic equations and generalized Ohm s law. Hydromagnetic waves (acoustic, Alfven and magnetoacoustic). Propagation of electrostatic waves in hot plasma: Elements of kinetic theory, distribution functions and Vlasov equation. Effect of temperature and resonant electrons on the propagation of Langmuir waves (Bohm-Gross relation and Landau damping). Ion acoustic waves. Coupling of oscillations and distinction between amplification and damping. Application to a two-electron beam system. Propagation in a medium with mild inhomogeneity and adiabatic approximation. Reflection and propagation at discontinuity surfaces.