Plasma Physics: Fundamentals and Applications

Lecture 1 - Introduction to Plasmas

Lecture 2 - Plasma Response to fields: Fluid Equations

Lecture 3 - DC Conductivity and Negative Differential Conductivity

Lecture 4 - RF Conductivity of Plasma

Lecture 5 - RF Conductivity of Plasma (Continued...)

Lecture 6 - Hall Effect, Cowling Effect and Cyclotron Resonance Heating

Lecture 7 - Electromagnetic Wave Propagation in Plasma

Lecture 8 - Electromagnetic Wave Propagation in Plasma (Continued...)

Lecture 9 - Electromagnetic Wave Propagation Inhomogeneous Plasma

Lecture 10 - Electrostatic Waves in Plasmas

Lecture 11 - Energy Flow with an Electrostatic Wave

Lecture 12 - Two Stream Instability

Lecture 13 - Relativistic electron Beam- Plasma Interaction

Lecture 14 - Cerenkov Free Electron Laser

Lecture 15 - Free Electron Laser

Lecture 16 - Free Electron Laser: Energy gain

Lecture 17 - Free Electron Laser: Wiggler Tapering and Compton Regime Operation

Lecture 18 - Weibel Instability

Lecture 19 - Rayleigh Taylor Instability

Lecture 20 - Single Particle Motion in Static Magnetic and Electric Fields

Lecture 21 - Plasma Physics Grad B and Curvature Drifts

Lecture 22 - Adiabatic Invariance of Magnetic Moment and Mirror confinement

Lecture 23 - Mirror machine

Lecture 24 - Thermonuclear fusion

Lecture 25 - Tokamak

Lecture 26 - Tokamak operation

Lecture 27 - Auxiliary heating and current drive in tokamak

Lecture 28 - Electromagnetic waves propagation in magnetise plasma

Lecture 29 - Longitudinal electromagnetic wave propagation cutoffs, resonances and faraday rotation

Lecture 30 - Electromagnetic propagation at oblique angles to magnetic field in a plasma

Lecture 31 - Low frequency EM waves magnetized plasma

Lecture 32 - Electrostatic waves in magnetized plasma

Lecture 33 - Ion acoustic, ion cyclotron and magneto sonic waves in magnetized plasma

Lecture 34 - VIasov theory of plasma waves

Lecture 35 - Landau damping and growth of waves

Lecture 36 - Landau damping and growth of waves (Continued...)

Lecture 37 - Anomalous resistivity in a plasma

Lecture 38 - Diffusion in plasma

Lecture 39 - Diffusion in magnetized plasma

Lecture 40 - Surface plasma wave

Lecture 41 - Laser interaction with plasmas embedded with clusters

Lecture 42 - Current trends and epilogue