Physics 218B | Winter 2020

Course Handouts

This page was last updated 27 Feb 2019.


Course Handouts

Course Syllabus — posted 12 December 2019

Texts - references and reading — posted 12 December 2019

Course Topics — posted 12 December 2019

Problem Sessions — posted 12 December 2019


Homework Problem Sets

Problem Set I — due 23 January

Problem Set II — due TBA

Problem Set III — due TBA

Problem Set IV — due at Last Class – Hard Deadline


Supplementary Material for 218B

Boozer (1986) — Mean Field Ohm's Law — posted 15 February 2018

Diamond and Malkov (2003) — Dynamics of Helicity Transport and Taylor Relaxation — posted 15 February 2018

Mak et al. (2017) — Vortex Disruption by Magnetic Fields — posted 15 February 2018

Kraichnan (1965) — MHD Spectrum — posted 01 March 2018

Pouquet et al. (1976) — Helical MHD Spectrum — posted 01 March 2018

Frisch et al. (1975) — Inverse Cascade Magnetic Helicity — posted 01 March 2018

Pouquet (1978) — 2D MHD — posted 01 March 2018

Goldreich and Sridhar (1995) — Strong Alfvenic Turbulence — posted 01 March 2018

Goldreich and Sridhar (1997) — MHD Turbulence — posted 01 March 2018

Diamond et al. (2005) — Self-consistent Mean Field Electrodynamics — posted 05 March 2018

Hughes and Tobias (2010) — An Introduction to Mean Field Dynamo Theory — posted 27 February 2020


Supplementary Material for 218A

Reviews of Plasma Physics - Vol 22 - B.B. Kadomtsev - posted 15 December 2014

Basic OV Paper on Rayleigh-Taylor Instability - posted 9 January 2015

Review of R-T Instability - posted 9 January 2015

Turbulent Mixing from R-T - posted 9 January 2015

Schematics of Brownian Motion and Fluctuation - Dissipation Theory - posted 29 January 2015

On the Instability of Superposed Fluids in a Gravitational Field - David Layzer - posted 29 January 2015

Thermal Equilibrium Fluctuations and Transport - posted 29 January 2015

Lectures on Random Walks and Diffusion - Highly Recommended - posted 23 February 2015

Chandrasekha Review - Highly Recommended - posted 23 February 2015


Scaing and Estimation:

Lecture 1: Buckingham Pi Theorem - posted 16 January 2015

Comments on Lecture 1 - posted 16 January 2015

Lecture 2: A Second Piece of Pi / Turbulence - posted 16 January 2015

Lecture 3: More on Turbulence/Fractals and Intermittency - posted 16 January 2015

Lecture 3: Gases, Diffusion Transport - posted 16 January 2015

Lecture 5: Wakes - posted 16 January 2015

Transport 1(1) - posted 16 January 2015

Wakes-Supplement - posted 16 January 2015

Transport II - Scaling and Scales - posted 16 January 2016

Transport III - Dielectrics and Conductors - posted 16 January 2016

Transport in Metals: Review - posted 16 January 2015

Transport V - Metals - posted 16 January 2015