"Version: 20170901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Charged particle dynamics and beam transport optics -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. A planar diode and the Child-Langmuir law -- 1.3. The klystron concept -- 1.4. Charged particle motion in combined electric and magnetic fields (the non-relativistic case) -- 1.5. Charged particle motion in combined electric and…