Lecture Notes for PHYS:7729 Plasma Physics II
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- Lecture #1: The Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) Equations
- Lecture #2: The Frozen-in Flux Theorem
- Lecture #3: Magnetic Diffusion and Intro to MHD Waves
- Lecture #4: MHD Waves: Alfven, Fast, and Slow Waves
- Lecture #5: More About MHD Waves
- Lecture #6: MHD Wave Observations and MHD Equilibria
- Lecture #7: Force-Balanced MHD Equilibria
- Lecture #8: Multiple Timescale Methods
- Lecture #9: Particle Motion in Slowly Varying Electric Fields and Polarization Drift
- Lecture #10: The Ponderomotive Force
- Lecture #11: MHD Stability
- Lecture #12: Normal Mode Analysis and the Energy Principle
- Lecture #13: MHD Stability Analysis of Rayleigh-Taylor Instability
- Lecture #14: Kinetic Theory for Electrostatic Waves in an Unmagnetized Plasma
- Lecture #15: Landau's Solution of the Initial Value Problem
- Lecture #16: Landau Damping of Electrostatic Waves
- Lecture #17: Maxwellian Distributions and the Plasma Dispersion Function
- Lecture #18: Review of Landau Damping; Cold Beam Instabilities
- Lecture #19: Kinetic Stability of a Plasma
- Lecture #20: Quasilinear Theory
- Lecture #21: Quasilinear Theory, Part II
- Lecture #22: Plasma Sheaths
- Lecture #23: Langmuir Probes, Atomic Processes, and Plasma Generation
- Lecture #24: The Framework of Plasma Physics
Background Lecture Notes for PHYS:7729 Plasma Physics II