| Abstract: | This paper deals with the temporal relaxation of the electron component of weakly ionized, anisothermal and collision dominated plasma in the molecular gases hydrogen and nitrogen after jump-like switching off of the electric field starting from stationary states. The investigation is based upon a solution of the non-stationary Boltzmann equation using a finite difference approach of the resulting partial differential equation. Besides the temporal development of the energy distribution and of some macroscopic quantities of the electrons especially the characteristic relaxation times and their physical nature are discussed and compared with former results on the relaxation in an inert gas plasma. |
