| CLASS # | TOPICS |
|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction: Basic Plasma Properties |
| 2, 3 | Debye Shielding: Collective Effects |
| 4, 5 | Charged Particle Motion in EM Fields |
| 6, 7 | Coulomb Collisions: Cross-sections, Relaxation |
| 8, 9 | Transport Processes |
| 10, 11 | Fluid Plasma Descriptions |
| 12, 13 | MHD Equilibrium |
| 14, 15 | MHD Dynamics |
| 16, 17 | Mid Term Exam |
| 18, 19 | Dynamics in Two-fluid Plasmas |
| 20, 21 | Cold Plasma Waves in a Magnetic Field |
| 22, 23 | Microscopic to Fluid Plasma Descriptions |
| 24 | Vlasov-Maxwell Kinetic Theory |
| 25, 26 | Linear Landau Damping and Growth |
| 27 | Kinetic Description of Waves and Instabilities; Experiments on Plasma Waves and Landau Damping |
| 28, 29 | Final Exam |
