Plasma Waves and Instabilities
AST 553
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1222
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Hydrodynamic and kinetic models of nonmagnetized and magnetized plasma dispersion; basic plasma waves and their applications; basic instabilities; mechanisms of collisionless dissipation; geometrics-optics approximation, including ray tracing, field-theoretical description of continuous waves, and ponderomotive effects; conservation laws and transport equations for the wave action, energy, and momentum; mode conversion; quasilinear theory.
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Section C01
- Type: Class
- Section: C01
- Status: O
- Enrollment: 6
- Capacity: 15
- Class Number: 20723
- Schedule: MW 09:00 AM-10:20 AM - Lewis Library 117