Preliminaries -- Contents -- 1 SPECTRAL DIAGNOSTICS METHODS -- 2 KINETIC ENERGY, TRANSLATIONAL RELAXATION AND DOPPLER BROADENING OF LINES IN NON-EQUILIBRIUM PLASMA SPECTRA -- 3 OPTICAL ACTINOMETRY OF PLASMA -- 4 LASER METHODS OF PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS -- 5 SPECTROSCOPY OF GROUND ELECTRONIC STATES OF MOLECULES IN PLASMA USING TUNABLE LASERS -- 6 DETERMINATION OF THE CONCENTRATION AND TEMPERATURE OF HEAVY PARTICLES FROM THE SPECTRA OF RAYLEIGH-SCATTERED LIGHT -- 7 REFRACTOMETRIC PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS METHODS -- 8 DIAGNOSTICS OF PLASMA FLOWS WITH A DISPERSED PHASE -- 9 MEASURING THE PLASMA FLOW VELOCITY BY THE TRACER PARTICLE METHOD -- 10 ELECTRIC PROBES IN NON-EQUILIBRIUM PLASMA -- 11 ELECTRIC PROBES IN CONTINUUM REGIME -- 12 PROBE METHODS OF DIAGNOSTICS OF CHEMICALLY REACTING DENSE PLASMA -- 13 ELECTRIC AND THERMAL PROBES IN THE PRESENCE OF CHEMICAL REACTIONS IN NON-EQUILIBRIUM PLASMA -- 14 MEASUREMENTS OF THE ENTHALPY OF HIGH-TEMPERATURE GAS FLOWS -- 15 PROBE MEASUREMENTS OF HEAT FLOWS IN PLASMA JETS -- 16 METHODS OF EXAMINING THE SPATIAL STRUCTURE OF RADIO-FREQUENCY CAPACITANCE DISCHARGES -- 17 WAVE BREAKDOWN IN DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS -- 18 PROBE MEASUREMENTS OF POTENTIAL DISTRIBUTION IN DENSE PLASMA -- 19 REDUCTION TO A UNIFORM LAYER IN AXISYMMETRIC OBJECTS -- 20 RECONSTRUCTION OF VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS OF EMITTING PARTICLES FROM THE SHAPE OF THE CONTOUR OF SPECTRAL LINES -- 21 AUTOMATION OF MEASUREMENTS IN PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.