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Syllabus:

Plasma Physics, 7.5 Credits

Swedish name: Plasmafysik D

This syllabus is valid: 2008-01-14 valid to 2009-05-10 (newer version of the syllabus exists)

Course code: 5FY067

Credit points: 7.5

Education level: Second cycle

Main Field of Study and progress level: Physics: Second cycle, has only first-cycle course/s as entry requirements

Grading scale: Pass with distinction, Pass, Fail

Responsible department: Department of Physics

Contents

Debye screening, perturbation theory for the motion of charged particles, adiabatic invariants, magneto hydro dynamics, ionacoustic waves, magnetosonic waves, Alfven waves, ambipolar diffusion, kinetic theory, electron plasma waves, Landau damping, non-linear phenomena, energy through thermonuclear fusion, laser fusion, plasma in space.

Required Knowledge

Electrodynamics, or equivalent. Analytical Mechanics, or equivalent.

Literature

Valid from: 2007 week 52