Intermediate Plasma Physics I

3 credits · College of Engineering catalogue

Advisory Prerequisite: NERS 471 or PHYSICS 405. Enforced Prerequisite: None. (3 credits) Single particle motion, collision and transport; plasma stability from orbital considerations; Vlasov and Liouville equations; Landau damping; kinetic modes and their reconstruction from fluid description; electrostatic and electromagnetic waves, cutoff and resonance.