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Introduction. Basic Plasma Properties |
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Debye Shielding: Collective Effects |
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Debye Shielding: Collective Effects (cont'd.) |
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Charged Particle Motion in EM Fields |
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Charged Particle Motion in EM Fields (cont'd.) |
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Coulomb Collisions: Cross-sections, Relaxation |
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Coulomb Collisions: Cross-sections, Relaxation (cont'd.) |
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Transport Processes: Fluid Descriptions |
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MHD Equilibrium |
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MHD Dynamics & Stability |
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Fluid Theory of Plasma Waves & Instabilities |
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Fluid Theory of Plasma Waves & Instabilities (cont'd.) |
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Fluid Theory of Plasma Waves & Instabilities (cont'd.) |
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Mid-term Review Session |
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Mid-term Exam |
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Plasma Theoretical Hierarchy;
Microscopic to Fluid Plasma Descriptions;
Vlasov-Maxwell Kinetic Theory |
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The Landau Problem |
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The Landau Problem (cont'd.) |
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Collisionless Dissipation |
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Collisionless Dissipation (cont'd.) |
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Kinetic Description of Waves and Instabilities |
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Collision Operator & Transport Theory |
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Collision Operator & Transport Theory (cont'd.) |
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The Spitzer Problem: Electrical Conductivity |
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Final Exam |
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