1. S. Chandrasekhar, Hydrodynamic and Hydromagnetic Stability, Clarendon Press, Oxford (1961). In Chapter 10 of this monograph the Rayleigh-Taylor instability in an ordinary liquid is discussed in detail. A bibliography on the subject is also included.
2. M. Kruskal and M. Schwarzchild, Proc. Roy. Soc., A233:348 (1954). The instability of the boundary of a plasma in a gravitational field is considered (§6.1.1).
3. C.L. Longmire and M. N. Rosenbluth, Ann. Phys., 1:120 (1957). The mechanism of the flute instability is discussed.
4. I.B. Bernstein et al., Proc. Roy. Soc, A244:17 (1958). The energy method used in §6.1 is developed. Earlier, similar methods had also been used in the instability theory of an ordinary liquid (see, for example, [1]).
5. E. P. Velikhov, Zh. Tekh. Fiz., 31:180(1961).