Lecture Notes for PHYS:7730 Advanced Plasma Physics
Below are links to the scanned PDF versions of the lecture notes handed out in class:
Fundamental Plasma Physics Concepts
- 1/18/22 Lecture #1: Introduction and Characteristic Scales in a Plasma
- 1/20/22 Lecture #2: Single Particle Motion
- 1/25/22 Lecture #3: Mirror Force, Adiabatic Invariance, Polarization Drift, and Collisions
- 1/27/22 Lecture #4: Distribution Functions, Moments, Moment Equations, and Equations of State
- 2/1/22 Lecture #5: MHD, Dimensionless Numbers, Frozen-In Flux, and Magnetic Diffusion
- 2/3/22 Lecture #6: MHD Waves
Plasma Turbulence
- 2/8/22-2/10/22 Lecture #7: Isotropic Turbulence Theories: Hydrodynamic and MHD Turbulence
- 2/15/22 Lecture #8: Weak MHD Turbulence
- 2/17/22 Lecture #9: Strong MHD Turbulence
- 2/22/22 Lecture #10: Boldyrev's Theory for Strong MHD Turbulence
- 2/24/22-3/1/22 Lecture #11: Kinetic Turbulence and Cascade Models
- 3/3/22 Lecture #12: Key Results on Kinetic Turbulence: Driving Scales
- 3/8/22-3/22/22 Lecture #13: Key Results on Kinetic Turbulence: Inertial Range
- 3/24/22-3/29/22 Lecture #14: Key Results on Kinetic Turbulence: Dissipation Range
Shocks
- 3/31/22-4/5/22 Lecture #15: Introduction to Shocks in Fluids
- 4/7/22 Lecture #16: MHD Shocks and Discontinuities I
- 4/12/22 Lecture #17: MHD Shocks and Discontinuities II
- 4/14/22 Lecture #18: MHD Shock Geometry
- 4/19/22 Lecture #19: Shock Upstream Conditions, de Hoffmann-Teller Frame, and Supercriticality
- 4/21/22 Lecture #20: Quasi-Perpendicular Supercritical Shocks
Magnetic Reconnection
- 4/26/22 Lecture #21: Magnetic Reconnection in Resistive MHD
- 4/28/22 Lecture #22: Resistive Tearing Instabilityux
- 5/3/22 Lecture #23: Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection