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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 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
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