Physics 218A | Winter 2017

Course Handouts:

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Course Handouts:

Course Syllabus - posted 13 December, 2016

Texts-References - posted 12 December 2016

Topics - posted 12 December 2016

Problem Sessions - posted 12 December 2016

218A - 9 Big Ideas - posted 12 December 2016

Problem Sets:

Problem Set I - due TBA

Problem Set II - due TBA

Problem Set III - due TBA

Problem Set III - REVISED - due 25 February 2017

Problem Set IV - due TBA

Supplementary Material for 218A

Reviews of Plasma Physics - Vol 22 - B.B. Kadomtsev - Highly Recommended - posted 22 December 2015

Basic OV Paper on Rayleigh-Taylor Instability - posted 22 December 2015

Review of R-T Instability - posted 22 December 2015

Turbulent Mixing from R-T - posted 22 December 2015

Schematics of Brownian Motion and Fluctuation - Dissipation Theory - posted 22 December 2015

On the Instability of Superposed Fluids in a Gravitational Field - David Layzer - posted 22 December 2015

Thermal Equilibrium Fluctuations and Transport - posted 22 December 2015

Lectures on Random Walks and Diffusion - Highly Recommended - posted 22 December 2015

Chandrasekha Review - Highly Recommended - posted 22 December 2015

Ryutov: 50 Years of Landau Damping - posted 22 December 2105

Debye on Screening - posted 07 January 2016

Whitham Wave Trains - posted 11 January 2016

Sturrock Negative Energy - posted 15 January 2016

Dawson Landau Damping - posted 15 January 2016

Basics of Fluctuations Near Equilibrium - REposted 25 January 2016

Rostoker and Rosenbluth on Test Particle Model - posted 1 February 2016

Roberts and Berk on Saturation of Two-Stream Instability - posted 1 February 2016

Berk, Nielsen, Roberts on Phase Space Fluid Dynamics - posted 1 February 2016

Chapter 2 - Includes Lenard-Balescu - posted 16 February 2016

Chapter 3 - Quasilinear Theory - posted 16 February 2016

Violent Relaxation, D. Lynden-Bell - posted 16 February 2016

A Perturbation Theory for Strong Plasma Turbulence, T.H. Dupree - posted 16 February 2016

Solving Linear Stochastic Differential Equations, A. Brissaud and U. Frisch - posted 17 February 2016

7 Big Ideas - posted 3 March 2016

Falkovich on NLS - posted 7 March 2016

Langmuir Turbulence and Collapse Review - posted 8 March 2016

Scaing and Estimation:

Lecture 1: Buckingham Pi Theorem - posted 22 December 2015

Comments on Lecture 1 - posted 22 December 2015

Lecture 2: A Second Piece of Pi / Turbulence - posted 22 December 2015

Lecture 3: More on Turbulence/Fractals and Intermittency - posted 22 December 2015

Lecture 4: Gases, Diffusion -> Transport - posted 22 December 2015

Lecture 5: Wakes - posted 22 December 2015

Transport 1(1) - posted 22 December 2015

Wakes-Supplement - posted 22 December 2015

Transport II - Scaling and Scales - posted 22 December 2015

Transport III - Dielectrics and Conductors - posted 22 December 2015

Transport in Metals: Review - posted 22 December 2015

Transport V - Metals - posted 22 December 2015