Physics 218A | Winter 2016

Lecture Notes:

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2016 Lecture Notes

Lectures 1-2: Plasmas on the Back-of-an-Envelope - posted 08 January 2015

Lectures 1-2: Basic Plasma Waves - posted 07 January 2016

Lecture 3: Wave Energy and Momentum - REposted 13 January 2016

Variational Approach to Wave Action --

Adiabatic Theory and Wave Action Density and Notes on Wave Action Density and Modulations - posted 11 January 2016

Lecture 4: Basics of Collisions - posted 13 January 2016

Lecture 4: Thermal Equilibrium Basics - REposted 25 January 2016

Lecture 5: Kinetic Theory of Waves and Landau Damping - posted 25 January 2016

Lecture 6: Formal Theory of Landau Damping - posted 25 January 2016

Lectures 7-8: Test Particle Model of Thermal Equilibrium - I - posted 27 January 2016

Lectures 7-8: Test Particle Model - Fluctuation Spectrum - II - REPOSTED 1 February 2016

Lectures 7-8: Test Particle Model of Thermal Equilibrium - III - posted 27 January 2017

Lectures 9-10: Transport 1 - posted 2 February 2016

Transport 1, Addendum: Screening Effects in Landau Collision Operator - posted 3 February 2016

Lectures 9-10: Transport and Diffusion Basics - posted 2 February 2016

Lectures 9-10: OV of Kinetic Equations - posted 2 February 2016

Lecture 11a: Transport - posted 16 February 2016

Lecture 11b: Transport - posted 16 February 2016

Lectures 12-13: Basics of Quasilinear Theory - posted 16 February 2016

Lectures 12-13: On the 'Quasilinear Theory' of the Vlasov Plasma: Status of Dynamical Friction and Subcritical Growth Theory - P.H. Diamond - posted 17 February 2016

Lectures 12-13: Guide to Material on Hamiltonian Chaos - posted 17 February 2016

Lectures 14-15: Nonlinear Plasma I - Basics of Turbulence - posted 22 February 2016

OV of Nonlinear Phenomena - posted 29 February 2016

Lectures 14-15: Nonlinear Plasma I - Detailed Notes on Turbulence - posted 22 February 2016

Lectures 16-17: Nonlinear Plasma II - Introduction to Langmuir Turbulence - posted 29 February 2016

Lectures 17-18: Langmuir Turbulence II - posted 7 March 2016


2015 Lecture Notes

Lectures 3-4-5: Linear R.-T. and ICF Background - Reposted 27 January 2015

Lectures 5-6-7: Nonlinear R.-T. - Layzer Solution - Bubble Penetration - Multi-Bubbles/Mix - Reposted 27 January 2015

Misc -> Spherical R.-T. - Supplement - posted 27 January 2015

Lectures 8-9: Thermal Equilibrium, Test Particle Model and Landau Damping-I - posted 27 January 2015

Lectures 8-9: Thermal Equilibrium, Test Particle Model and Landau Damping-II - posted 27 January 2015

Lectures 8-9: Thermal Equilibrium, Test Particle Model and Landau Damping-III - posted 27 January 2015

Lectures 8-9: Thermal Equilibrium, Test Particle Model and Landau Damping-IV - posted 27 January 2015

Lecture 10: Waves and Instabilities - posted 4 February 2015

Lectures 11-12: Quasilinear Theory - posted 9 February 2015

Intro to Transport and Relaxation - Reposted 25 February 2015

Lectures 13-14: Kinetic Equations - posted 11 February 2015

Lectures 15-16: Collision Theory and Rosenbluth Potentials - posted 20 February 2015

Lectures 15-16: Collision Theory - posted 24 February 2015

Lecture 17: Disparate Scale Interaction - posted 20 February 2015

-> Chapter 7 (D-I-I)

-> Diamond-Hong Notes

See also Falkovich

Self-Focusing Notes - posted 23 February 2015

Lecture 18: DSI-Diamond and Hong - posted 20 February 2015

Lectures 19-20: Chapter 5 (D-I-I) - posted 23 February 2015