AST 552 General Plasma Physics II (2012)

• Classroom: Jadwin A09

• Part I. Kinetic plasma physics (by William M. Tang)
• period: February 6 – March 14
• email: tang@pppl.gov or wtang@princeton.edu
• phone: (609)243-2612
• office: B145, Plasma Physics Lab.

• Time: 10:30 - 11:50am MWF
• Week 1: lectures on Feb. 6 and Feb. 8.
• Week 2: lectures on Feb. 13 and Feb. 15.
• Week 3: lectures on Feb. 20 and Feb. 22.
• Week 4: lectures on Feb. 27 and Mar. 2.
• Week 5: lectures on Mar. 5, 7 and 9
• Week 6: lectures on Mar. 12, 14, and 16.
  

• Spring break (Mar. 19 – Mar. 23)


• Part II. Magnetohydrodynamics (by Hantao Ji) 
• period: March 26 – May 4
• email: hji@pppl.gov
• phone: (609)243-2162
• office: L222, Plasma Physics Lab.

• Time: 10:30 - 11:50am MWF
• Week 1: TBD
• Week 2: TBD
• Week 3: TBD
• Week 4: TBD
• Week 5: TBD
• Week 6: TBD
  

• Reading period (May 7 – May 11)


• Final oral exam
• Location: Theory Conference Room, PPPL
• Schedules: TBD

References

Syllabus for Part I

Syllabus for Part II

Lecture Notes for Part II

• Magnetohydrodynamic models

• Magnetohydrodynamic equilibrium

• Waves and shocks
  

• Energy principle

• Instabilities (I)

• Instabilities (II)

• Instabilities (III)
  

• Relaxation and turbulence

• Dynamo

• Magnetic reconnection

Homework problems for Part I and Part II

• Distributed every week; due within one week.

• Grader: Brendan Lyons
  
• email: bclyons@princeton.edu
• phone: 609-243-2178
• office: S217, Plasma Physics Lab.

• Homework problem set 1, and their solutions

• Homework problem set 2, and their solutions

• Homework problem set 3, and their solutions

• Homework problem set 4, and their solutions

• Homework problem set 5, and their solutions

• Homework problem set 6, and their solutions

• Homework problem set 7, and their solutions

• Homework problem set 1, and their solutions

• Homework problem set 2, and their solutions

• Homework problem set 3, and their solutions


• Homework problem set 4, and their solutions

• Homework problem set 5, and their solutions

• Homework problem set 6, and their solutions

Textbooks for Part I

• S. I. Braginskii,  Reviews of Plasma Physics, Volume 1(pages 205-311, 1965).

• L. Spitzer,  "Physics of Fully Ionized Gases" (Interscience Publishers - Wiley & Sons, 1962. Out of print, xerox copy available in the library.

• N. Krall and A. Trivelpiece,  "Principles of Plasma Physics"  (McGraw--Hill, 1973).

• F. Hinton and R. Hazeltine,  Reviews of Modern Physics  Volume 48 (pages 239-308, 1976).

• R. B. White, "Theory of Toroidally Confined Plasmas" (2nd Edition, Imperial College Press, 2001)
  

Textbooks for Part II

• Miyamoto, Plasma Physics for Nuclear Fusion, (Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 1989).
[a new version of this book: Miyamoto, Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion, (Springer, New York, 2004)]

• Freidberg, Ideal magnetohydrodynamics (New York, Plenum Press, 1987). Out of print, xerox copy available in the library.

• Kulsrud, Plasma physics for astrophysics (Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 2005). [Errata]