Calendar

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