| Week |
Topic |
|
1
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Basic definitions and parameters. Debye screening and plasma osillations. Ionization. Coulomb collisions. |
I.1
II.1 |
2
|
Hierarchy of descriptions. Single-fluid model. Magnetohydrodynamics. |
I.2
|
3
|
MHD equilibria and waves. |
I.3
II.6.1-6.4 |
4
|
MHD discontinuities. MHD in space plasmas. |
I.4
|
5
|
Two-fluid description. Relation to MHD. |
I.5
|
6
|
Waves in dispersive media - general approach. |
I.6
II.4.1-4.2 |
7
|
Waves in two-fluid hydrodynamics without and with external magnetic field. |
I.7
II.4.3-4.5, 4.10-4.19 |
8
|
Nonlinear stationary waves in two-fluid theory |
I.7
|
9
|
Kinetic description. From kinetics to hydrodynamics. |
I.8
II. 7.1-7.6 |
10
|
Waves in kinetic description. Landau damping. |
I.8
II.7.1-7.6 |
11
|
Instabilities (two-stream, beam) in hydrodynamic and kinetic descriptions. |
I.9
II.6.6 |
12
|
Instabilities (two-stream, beam) in hydrodynamic and kinetic descriptions. |
I.9
|
13
|
(Optional) Noninear phenomena - first concepts. |
I.10
|