16.55 | Fall 2014 | Graduate

Ionized Gases

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16.55 Fall 2014 Lecture 1 Notes: Fundamentals of Plasma Physics
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16.55 Fall 2014 Lecture 10-11 Notes: The Equilibrium Distribution and its Properties
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16.55 Fall 2014 Lecture 12 Notes: Equilibrium in a Force Field
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16.55 Fall 2014 Lecture 13-14 Notes: Moments of the Boltzmann Equation
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16.55 Fall 2014 Lecture 15 Notes: Maxwellian Collisions
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16.55 Fall 2014 Lecture 16 Notes: The Electron Energy Equation
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16.55 Fall 2014 Lecture 17 Notes: Structure of the Plasma Sheath
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16.55 Fall 2014 Lecture 18 Notes: Electrostatic Probes
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16.55 Fall 2014 Lecture 19 Notes: Orbital Motion Limit
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16.55 Fall 2014 Lecture 2 Notes: Motion of Charges in Uniform Fields
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16.55 Fall 2014 Lecture 20-21 Notes: Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics
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16.55 Fall 2014 Lecture 22 Notes: Applications of Statistical Mechanics
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16.55 Fall 2014 Lecture 23 Notes: Atoms and Molecules
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16.55 Fall 2014 Lecture 24 Notes: Radiation Transport in a Gas
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16.55 Fall 2014 Lecture 25 Notes: Semi-thick plasma approximation
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16.55 Fall 2014 Lecture 3 Notes: More Drifts
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16.55 Fall 2014 Lecture 4 Notes: Connection to Fluids
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16.55 Fall 2014 Lecture 5 Notes: Adiabatic Invariants
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16.55 Fall 2014 Lecture 6-7 Notes: Collision Theory
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16.55 Fall 2014 Lecture 8 Notes: Kinetic Theory
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16.55 Fall 2014 Lecture 9 Notes: Boltzmann’s H-Theorem

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