THE COURSE

This is a sixteen lecture course that introduces plasma physics at the 3rd year undergraduate level.

The course assessment will be 50% exam,  25% lab report, 25% assignments.

These notes have widely drawn from a number of sources including:
 

Francis F. Chen, Introduction to Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, Plenum Press, 1984.
 

Dendy, Plasma Physics, Cambridge University Press, 1995.
 

K. Miyamoto, Plasma Physics for Nuclear Fusion, Cambridge, 1989.
 

Richard Hazeltine and Francois Waelbroek, The Framework of Plasma Physics
 

J.A. Bittencourt, Fundamentals of Plasma Physics, Pergamon Press, 1986.
 

919kB	Introduction 28 pages
328kB	Kinetic theory 36 pages
203kB	Gaseous electronics 20 pages
295kB	Single particle motions 32 pages
142kB	Magnetized plasmas 15 pages
159kB	Magnetohydrodynamics 12 pages
143kB	MHD waves 14 pages
82kB	Waves in isotropic plasma 8 pages
124kB	Waves in cold magnetized plasma 13 pages
192kB	Past Papers