Plasma Physics course material
Material for Plasma Physics course (TU Dresden) given in the Summer semester 2022:
- Plasma Physics course outline 2022
- Course introduction 2022
- Plasma Physics - lecture 1: Introduction, Saha equation, Debye length, plasma frequency
- Plasma Physics - lecture 2: Single particle motion and magnetic confinement
- Plasma Physics - lecture 3: Collisions and radiation
- Plasma Physics - lecture 4: Kinetic theory, Vlasov equation
- Plasma Physics - lecture 5: Magneto-hydrodynamics
- Plasma Physics - lectures 6 & 7: Waves in plasma I and II
- Plasma Physics - lecture 8: Magnetic confinement fusion
- Plasma Physics - lecture 9: Laser plasmas & ICF
- Plasma Physics - lecture 10: Plasma instabilities
- Plasma Physics - lecture 11: Shocks
- Guest lecture 1: X-ray spectroscopy (Dr. Michal Šmíd)
- Guest lecture 2: Plasma simulations (Dr. Michael Bussmann)
- Bonus lecture: Laboratory Astrophysics (Prof. Hideaki Takabe)
All course material can also be accessed on the TU Dresden online teaching platform OPAL.
Recommended literature:
- A. Piel, Plasma Physics, Springer
- F. F. Chen, Introduction to Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, Springer
- R. O. Dendy, Plasma Dynamics, Oxford Science Publications
- D. H. Trevena, Statistical Mechanics, Horwood Publishing
- R. P. Drake, High Energy Density Physics, Springer
- W. L. Kruer, The Physics Of Laser Plasma Interactions, Westview Press
- T. Tajima & K. Shibata, Plasma Astrophysics, Westview Press
