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Introduction
Plasma Physics
Richard Fitzpatrick
Professor of Physics
The University of Texas at Austin
Introduction
Sources
What is Plasma?
Brief History of Plasma Physics
Basic Parameters
Plasma Frequency
Debye Shielding
Plasma Parameter
Collisions
Magnetized Plasmas
Plasma Beta
Charged Particle Motion
Introduction
Motion in Uniform Fields
Method of Averaging
Guiding Centre Motion
Magnetic Drifts
Invariance of Magnetic Moment
Poincaré Invariants
Adiabatic Invariants
Magnetic Mirrors
Van Allen Radiation Belts
Ring Current
Second Adiabatic Invariant
Third Adiabatic Invariant
Motion in Oscillating Fields
Plasma Fluid Theory
Introduction
Moments of the Distribution Function
Moments of the Collision Operator
Moments of the Kinetic Equation
Fluid Equations
Entropy Production
Fluid Closure
Braginskii Equations
Normalization of the Braginskii Equations
Cold-Plasma Equations
MHD Equations
Drift Equations
Closure in Collisionless Magnetized Plasmas
Langmuir Sheaths
Waves in Cold Plasmas
Introduction
Plane Waves in a Homogeneous Plasma
Cold-Plasma Dielectric Permittivity
Cold-Plasma Dispersion Relation
Polarization
Cutoff and Resonance
Waves in an Unmagnetized Plasma
Low-Frequency Wave Propagation
Parallel Wave Propagation
Perpendicular Wave Propagation
Wave Propagation Through Inhomogeneous Plasmas
Cutoffs
Resonances
Resonant Layers
Collisional Damping
Pulse Propagation
Ray Tracing
Radio Wave Propagation Through the Ionosphere
Magnetohydrodynamic Fluids
Introduction
Magnetic Pressure
Flux Freezing
MHD Waves
The Solar Wind
Parker Model of Solar Wind
Interplanetary Magnetic Field
Mass and Angular Momentum Loss
MHD Dynamo Theory
Homopolar Generators
Slow and Fast Dynamos
Cowling Anti-Dynamo Theorem
Ponomarenko Dynamos
Magnetic Reconnection
Linear Tearing Mode Theory
Nonlinear Tearing Mode Theory
Fast Magnetic Reconnection
MHD Shocks
Parallel Shocks
Perpendicular Shocks
Oblique Shocks
Waves in Warm Plasmas
Introduction
Landau Damping
Physics of Landau Damping
Plasma Dispersion Function
Ion Sound Waves
Waves in Magnetized Plasmas
Parallel Wave Propagation
Perpendicular Wave Propagation
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Richard Fitzpatrick 2011-03-31
