This course teaches the basics of high and low temperature plasma physics. The course begins with the definition and occurrences of plasma and discusses the motion of single charged particles in simple and complex magnetic and electric fields. Collisions and stochastic processes are discussed, the plasma fluid equations and the magneto-hydrodynamic equations are derived and used to describe transport processes in plasmas. The role of boundaries in plasmas is considered and an introduction to plasma waves and oscillations is given. Finally, we introduce the kinetic description of a plasma and give a survey of the most important plasma discharges.
Literature: F. F. Chen, Introduction to Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, Plenum (New York) 1988; R. J. Goldston and P. H. Rutherford, Introduction to Plasma Physics, IOP Publishing (Bristol) 1995; U. Stroth, Plasmaphysik, Vieweg/Teubner (Wiesbaden) 2011; A. Piel, Plasma Physics, Springer (Heidelberg) 2010
- Dozent/in: Andre Melzer