Homework for PHYS:7730 Advanced Plasma Physics

GB17: Gurnett and Bhattacharjee, Introduction to Plasma Physics, 2017.
BS03: Boyd, and Sanderson, The Physics of Plasmas, 2003.
B06: Bellan, Fundamentals of Plasma Physics, 2006.

Week 1

Due Thursday, January 27, 2022.

• Suggested Reading:
  • Review GB17 Chapter 2 (p. 4-18)
  • Review GB17 Chapter 3, Sec 3.1-3.8 (p. 22-64)
• Optional Reading:
  • Review BS03 Chapter 1 (p. 1-11)
  • Review B06 Chapter 1 (p. 1-25)
  • Review BS03 Chapter 2, Sec 2.1-2.15 (p. 12-43)
• Homework #1

Week 2

Due Thursday, February 3, 2022.

• Suggested Reading:
  • Review GB17 Chapter 5, Sec 5.1-5.4 (p. 148-167)
  • Review GB17 Chapter 6, Sec 6.1-6.3 (p. 186-202)
• Optional Reading:
  • Review B06 Chapter 2, Sec. 2.1-2.7 (p. 34-62)
  • Review BS03 Chapter 3, Sec 3.3-3.4 (p. 58-71)
• Homework #2

Week 3

Due Thursday, February 10, 2022.

• Suggested Reading:
  • Review GB17 Chapter 6, Sec 6.4-6.5 (p. 202-215)
• Optional Reading:
  • Review B06 Chapter 4, Sec. 4.3 (p. 155-164)
  • Review BS03 Chapter 4, Sec 4.8 (p. 130-132)
• Homework #3

Week 4

Due Thursday, February 17, 2022.

• Suggested Reading:
  • Read Sridhar and Goldreich, Toward a Theory of Interstellar Turbulence. I. Weak Alfvenic Turbulence, ApJ 432:612 (1994)
    You may feel free to skim or skip Section 3 and the Appendix
• Homework #4

Week 5

Due Thursday, February 24, 2022.

• Suggested Reading:
  • Read Goldreich and Sridhar, Toward a Theory of Interstellar Turbulence. I. Strong Alfvenic Turbulence, ApJ 438:763 (1995)
    You may feel free to skim or skip Sections 3-5
  • Read Boldyrev, Spectrum of Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence, PRL 96:115002 (2006)
    
• Homework #5

Week 6

Due Thursday, March 3, 2022.

• Suggested Reading:
  • Read Howes, Kinetic Turbulence, chapter in "Magnetic Fields in Diffuse Media,"
    ed. Lazarian, A., de Gouveia Dal Pino, E. M., and Melioli, C., Springer: New York (2015)
    
• Homework #6

Week 7

Due Thursday, March 10, 2022.

• Suggested Reading
  • Read Howes, A Dynamical Model of Plasma Turbulence in the Solar Wind, Philosoph. Trans. Roy. Soc. A, 373: 20140145 (2015).

Week 8

Due Thursday, March 24, 2022.

• Select Final Project Topic (see below),

Week 9

Due Thursday, March 31, 2022.

• No Homework

Week 10

Due Thursday, April 7, 2022.

• Suggested Reading:
  • Read GB17 Chapter 8, Sec 8.1-8.3 (p. 281-308)
• Homework #7

Week 11

Due Thursday, April 14, 2022.

• Suggested Reading:
  • Read Balogh and Treumann, Chapter 2: The Shock Problem,
    from Physics of Collisionless Shocks: Space Plasma Shock Waves, Springer: New York (2013)
    
  • Read Sec 3.3 (p.59-66) of Balogh and Treumann, Chapter 3: Basic Equations and Models,
    from Physics of Collisionless Shocks: Space Plasma Shock Waves, Springer: New York (2013)
    
• Complete Annotated Bibliography for the Final Project (see details below).

Week 12

Due Thursday, April 21, 2022.

• Suggested Reading:
  • Read Sec 5.1--5.2 (p.149-176)Balogh and Treumann, Chapter 5: Quasi-perpendicular Supercritical Shocks
    from Physics of Collisionless Shocks: Space Plasma Shock Waves, Springer: New York (2013)
    
• Homework #8

Week 13

Due Thursday, April 28, 2022.

• Suggested Reading:
  • Read GB17 Chapter 7, Sec 7.5-7.6 (p. 263-277)

Week 14

Due Thursday, May 5, 2022.

• Suggested Reading:
  • Read Sec 3.1 (p.87-107) Fundamentals of collisionless reconnection by Drake and Shay,
    from Reconnection of Magnetic Fields: Magnetohydrodynamics and Collisionless Theory and Observations, ed. by Birn and Priest, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge (2007)
    

Week 15

• Final Project, due Thursday, May 5, 2022

PHYS:7730 Final Project

Assignment for PHYS:7730 Final Project

• Due Thursday, March 24, 2022: Project Topic and Format Selection
• Due Thursday, April 14, 2022: Annotated Bibliography
• Suggestions for Thorough and Efficient Literature Searches
• Examples and Templates for Annotated Bibliography and Literature Review
  Tar archive containing all files below: 7730templates.tar
• Instructions for Typesetting Templates
• Example Annotated Bibliography
• Example Annotated Bibliography LaTeX source 7730example_annbib.tex
• Example Annotated Bibliography BibTeX source example_annbib.bib
• Template Annotated Bibliography LaTeX source 7730template_annbib.tex
• Template Annotated Bibliography BibTeX source template_annbib.bib
• Example Literature Review
• Example Literature Review LaTeX source 7730example_litrev.tex
• Example Literature Review BibTeX source example_litrev.bib
• Template Literature Review LaTeX source 7730template_litrev.tex
• Template Literature Review BibTeX source template_litrev.bib
• Due Thursday, May 5, 2022: Final Project