Plasma I
PHYS-423
Lecture planning
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- Please note that the lecture planning can be modified at any time.
- Here you can also find the references for each chapter of the course. They will be updated after each lecture if needed.
- Unless specified, the chapters refer to Prof. Fasoli lecture notes, that you can find in the Bibliography section.
| Date |
Subject |
Reference | Complementary material |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11-09-2025 |
Introduction, plasma definition and production, time and spatial scales | Chapters 1,2 | |
| 18-09-2025 | Random walk, transport in weakly ionized plasma, charged particle collisions | Ch.2 (p.12), Ch.5 (p.30-34), Ch.3 (p.13-17) | |
| 25-09-2025 | Effect of multiple collisions, energy and momentum transfer | Ch.3 (p.17-19), Ch.4 (p.20-26) | |
| 02-10-2025 | Plasma resistivity, plasma waves - linearization, MHD model | Ch.4 (p(26-29), Ch.5/6 (p34-41) | |
| 09-10-2025 | Plasma waves: MHD waves, two fluid model | Ch.6 (p 44-52) | |
| 16-10-2025 | Waves in two fluid model | Ch.6 (p.53-61) | |
| 30-10-2025 | Kinetic model - derivation of the Vlasov equation |
Ch.7 (p.66-70) | |
| 06-11-2025 | Kinetic model - Conservation laws, from Vlasov equation to fluid equations | Ch.7 (p.70-75) | |
| 13-11-2025 | Vlasov-Poisson description of an unmagnetized plasma | Ch 7 (p.76-80), Ch 8 (p.81-83) | |
| 20-11-2025 | Wave-particle interaction - Landau's rule | Ch.8(p.84-91) | |
| 27-11-2025 | Wave-particle interaction - Landau damping | Chapter 8 (p. 98-99) | Landau_Damping |
| 04-12-2025 | Stability criteria - Vlasov treatment of plasma waves | Chapters 8 (100-105) | |
| 11-12-2025 | Kinetic theory of waves in hot magnetized plasmas | Ch 9 (p. 106-112) | |
| 18-12-2025 | Non-linear phenomena | Ch 10 | Nicholson |