Lecture Notes for 029:293 Plasma Physics II
Below are links to the scanned PDF versions of the lecture notes handed out in class:
- Lecture #1: MHD Stability
- Lecture #2: Normal Mode Analysis and the Energy Principle
- Lecture #3: MHD Stability Analysis of Rayleigh-Taylor Instability
- Lecture #4: Drift Waves
- Lecture #5: Kinetic Theory for Electrostatic Waves in an Unmagnetized Plasma
- Lecture #6: Landau's Solution of the Initial Value Problem
- Lecture #7: Landau Damping of Electrostatic Waves
- Lecture #8: Maxwellian Distributions and the Plasma Dispersion Function
- Lecture #9: Review of Landau Damping; Cold Beam Instabilities
- Lecture #10: Kinetic Stability of a Plasma
- Lecture #11: Quasilinear Theory
- Lecture #12: Quasilinear Theory, Part II
- Lecture #13: Plasma Sheaths
- Lecture #14: Langmuir Probes, Atomic Processes, and Plasma Generation
- Lecture #15: Multiple Timescale Methods
- Lecture #16: Particle Motion in Slowly Varying Electric Fields and Polarization Drift
- Lecture #17: The Ponderomotive Force
- Lecture #18: Collisions and Resistivity
- Lecture #19: Turbulence
- Lecture #20: Weak and Strong MHD Turbulence
- Lecture #21: The Magnetorotational Instability
- Lecture #22: The Framework of Plasma Physics
- Lecture #23: Numerical Simulation of Plasmas
- Lecture #24: The Holy Grail of Plasma Physics: Controlled Thermonuclear Fusion