Credits: 3 (3-0-0)

Prerequisites: PYL552

Description

Introduction to plasma, Debye shielding, Single particle motion in E and B fields, Mirror confinement, Plasma oscillations, Waves in unmagnetized plasmas, Solitons, Two stream instability, Rayleigh Taylor instability, Vlasov equation and Landau damping, Waves in magnetized plasmas (fluid theory), Plasma production & characterization, Plasma processing of materials, Laser driven fusion, Cerenkov free electron laser, Applications to astrophysics and astronomy.

Prerequisite Tree

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PYL657-659[PYL657]
PYL657-659 --> PYL552-659[PYL552]

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