Lecture Notes for 029:195 Plasma Physics II (2009)

Below are links to the scanned PDF versions of the lecture notes handed out in class:

• Lecture #1: Waves in a Cold, Uniform Magnetized Plasma
• Lecture #2: Parallel Propagating Waves and Ordinary Perpendicular Propagating Waves
• Lecture #3: Perpendicular Waves and Physical Investigation of Wave Properties
• Lecture #4: Student Presentations on Cold Plasma Waves I (no longer available online)
• Lecture #5: Student Presentations on Cold Plasma Waves II (no longer available online)
• Lecture #6: Ray Tracing in Inhomogeneous Plasmas
• Lecture #7: MHD Stability
• Lecture #8: Normal Mode Analysis and the Energy Principle
• Lecture #9: MHD Stability Analysis of Rayleigh-Taylor Instability
• Lecture #10: Drift Waves
• Lecture #11: Kinetic Theory for Electrostatic Waves in an Unmagnetized Plasma
• Lecture #12: Landau's Solution of the Initial Value Problem
• Lecture #13: Landau Damping of Electrostatic Waves
• Lecture #14: Maxwellian Distributions and the Plasma Dispersion Function
• Lecture #15: Review of Landau Damping; Cold Beam Instabilities
• Lecture #16: Kinetic Stability of a Plasma
• Lecture #17: MHD Discontinuities and Shocks I (given by Professor Scudder)
• Lecture #18: MHD Discontinuities and Shocks II (given by Professor Scudder)
• Lecture #19: Quasilinear Theory
• Lecture #20: Quasilinear Theory, Part II
• Lecture #21: The Framework of Plasma Physics
• Lecture #22: Numerical Simulation of Plasmas
• Lecture #23: The Magnetorotational Instability
• Lecture #24: Turbulence
• Lecture #25: Weak and Strong MHD Turbulence