Physics 218A | Winter 2015

Course Handouts:

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Problem Sets:

Problem Set I - due January 21, 2015

Problem Set II - due January 21, 2015

Problem Set III - due February 4, 2015

Problem Set IV - due March 4, 2014

Supplementary Material for 218A

Reviews of Plasma Physics - Vol 22 - B.B. Kadomtsev - posted 15 December 2014

Basic OV Paper on Rayleigh-Taylor Instability - posted 9 January 2015

Review of R-T Instability - posted 9 January 2015

Turbulent Mixing from R-T - posted 9 January 2015

Schematics of Brownian Motion and Fluctuation - Dissipation Theory - posted 29 January 2015

On the Instability of Superposed Fluids in a Gravitational Field - David Layzer - posted 29 January 2015

Thermal Equilibrium Fluctuations and Transport - posted 29 January 2015

Lectures on Random Walks and Diffusion - Highly Recommended - posted 23 February 2015

Chandrasekha Review - Highly Recommended - posted 23 February 2015

218A - 7 big Ideas - posted 9 March 2015

Ryutov: 50 Years of Landau Damping - posted 13 April 2105


Scaing and Estimation:

Lecture 1: Buckingham Pi Theorem - posted 16 January 2015

Comments on Lecture 1 - posted 16 January 2015

Lecture 2: A Second Piece of Pi / Turbulence - posted 16 January 2015

Lecture 3: More on Turbulence/Fractals and Intermittency - posted 16 January 2015

Lecture 3: Gases, Diffusion -> Transport - posted 16 January 2015

Lecture 5: Wakes - posted 16 January 2015

Transport 1(1) - posted 16 January 2015

Wakes-Supplement - posted 16 January 2015

Transport II - Scaling and Scales - posted 16 January 2016

Transport III - Dielectrics and Conductors - posted 16 January 2016

Transport in Metals: Review - posted 16 January 2015

Transport V - Metals - posted 16 January 2015