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Plasma 1 Occurrence, definition, temperature<\/a>
Plasma 2 Debye shielding, plasma parameter, criteria<\/a>
Plasma 3 Applications<\/a>
Plasma 4 Uniform constant E&B<\/a>
Plasma 5 Drift due to gravity, grad B, and curved B<\/a>
Plasma 6 Magnetic mirrors<\/a>
Plasma 7 Non-uniform E<\/a>
Plasma 8 Time-varying E,B<\/a>
Plasma 9 Adiabatic invariants<\/a>
Plasma 10 Permittivity<\/a>
Plasma 11 Convective derivative, stress tensor<\/a>
Plasma 12 Fluid equations<\/a>
Plasma 13 Fluid drift perp to B<\/a>
Plasma 14 Fluid drift par to B, Plasma Approximation<\/a>
Plasma 15 Waves, group velocity, plasma oscillations<\/a>
Plasma 16 Electron plasma waves<\/a>
Plasma 17 Sound waves, ion waves<\/a>
Plasma 18 Goodness of plasma approx., ion vs electron waves<\/a>
Plasma 19 Electrostatic electron oscillations perpendicular to B<\/a>
Plasma 20 Electrostatic Ion Waves Perpendicular to B<\/a>
Plasma 21 Lower hybrid frequency, EM waves with B0=0, Applications<\/a>
Plasma 22 EM waves perp to B0, cutoffs, resonances<\/a>
Plasma 23 EM waves || B0, Whistler mode, Faraday rotation<\/a>
Plasma 24 Hydromagnetic (Alfven) waves<\/a>
Plasma 25 Magnetosonic waves, waves summary, CMA diagram<\/a>
Plasma 26 Diffusion and Mobility<\/a>
Plasma 27 Decay by Diffusion, Ambipolar diffusion, Slabs & Cylinders<\/a>
Plasma 28 Steady state, plane & line sources<\/a>
Plasma 29 Diffusion across B<\/a>
Plasma 30 Ambipolar diffusion across B<\/a>
Plasma 31 Collisions in fully ionized plasmas, resistivity<\/a>
Plasma 32 Single fluid MHD, diffusion of fully ionized plasmas<\/a>
Plasma 33 Solns of diffusion equation, t-dep & non-t-dep, Bohm & neoclassical diffusion<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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