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| Course name | Lecture I-A |
| Course ID | 13.7-WF-FiAT-W-I-F- 18 |
| Faculty | Faculty of Physics and Astronomy |
| Field of study | Physics and Astronom |
| Education profile | academic |
| Level of studies | PhD studies |
| Beginning semester | winter term 2018/2019 |
| Semester | 1 |
| ECTS credits to win | 3 |
| Course type | obligatory |
| Teaching language | english |
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| The class form | Hours per semester (full-time) | Hours per week (full-time) | Hours per semester (part-time) | Hours per week (part-time) | Form of assignment |
| Lecture | 30 | 2 | - | - | Exam |
Presentation of basic conceptions and methods used for the desciption of physical processes in the cosmic plasma – the main ingridient of the visible Universe.
Knowledge of electrodynamics and calculus at the Master of Science level.
- Basic parameters of cosmic and laboratory plasma.
- Motiion of charged particles in electromagnetic fields, Motion of the driving centers, magnetic drifts, adiabatic invatiants, magnetic traps.
- Plasma fluid theory. Kinetic equations, distribution function moments, flow equations, MHD, drift equations.
- Waves in cold plasma. Planar waves, transverse waves, cut-offs and resonances, tracing and propagation of waves.
- Plasma magneto-hydrodynamics. MHD waves, solar wind, interplanetary magnetic fields, reconnection, magnetic dynamo, MHD shocks.
- Kinetic theory of waves. Dispersion equations, Landau dampening, parallel and transverse propagation.
- Methods of computer simulations used in plasma physics.
Classic lecture
| Outcome description | Outcome symbols | Methods of verification | The class form |
Positive grade from the final exam.
R. Fitzpatrick, Introduction to plasma physics, 2010, available on the website: http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/plasma/plasma.html
T. Boyd, J. Sanderson, The physics of plasma, Cambridge University Press, 2003
M. Aschwanden, Physics of the solar corona,
Modified by dr Joanna Kalaga (last modification: 11-07-2018 12:59)
