Reflection of a transient plane wave obliquely incident on compressible plasma half-space

The expression for the reflected transient pulses from the sharp surface of a compressible plasma half-space are obtained in a series form with the first perturbation order explicitely evaluated and valid for small to moderate compressibility (α = u/C
0
≤ 0.3, u is the electron acoustic velocity and C
0
is the velocity of light in free space). The reflected waveform are close to the waveform of cold plasma (α = 0) with noticeable change of amplitude and time delay of the first maxima.