Physics 218B | Winter 2020

Course Handouts

This page was last updated 27 Feb 2019.


Course Handouts

Course Syllabusposted 12 December 2019

Texts - references and reading posted 12 December 2019

Course Topicsposted 12 December 2019

Problem Sessionsposted 12 December 2019


Homework Problem Sets

Problem Set Idue 23 January

Problem Set IIdue TBA

Problem Set IIIdue TBA

Problem Set IV due at Last Class – Hard Deadline


Supplementary Material for 218B

Boozer (1986) — Mean Field Ohm's Lawposted 15 February 2018

Diamond and Malkov (2003) — Dynamics of Helicity Transport and Taylor Relaxationposted 15 February 2018

Mak et al. (2017) — Vortex Disruption by Magnetic Fieldsposted 15 February 2018

Kraichnan (1965) — MHD Spectrumposted 01 March 2018

Pouquet et al. (1976) — Helical MHD Spectrumposted 01 March 2018

Frisch et al. (1975) — Inverse Cascade Magnetic Helicityposted 01 March 2018

Pouquet (1978) — 2D MHDposted 01 March 2018

Goldreich and Sridhar (1995) — Strong Alfvenic Turbulenceposted 01 March 2018

Goldreich and Sridhar (1997) — MHD Turbulenceposted 01 March 2018

Diamond et al. (2005) — Self-consistent Mean Field Electrodynamicsposted 05 March 2018

Hughes and Tobias (2010) — An Introduction to Mean Field Dynamo Theoryposted 27 February 2020


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


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