Course catalogue | University of Parma

Professor
Academic discipline: Fisica della materia (FIS/03)
Field: A scelta dello studente
Type of training activity: Student's choice

32 hours
of face-to-face activities

4 credits

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Learning objectives

The aim of the course is to provide students with the knowledge necessary for studying the phenomena that take place in plasmas (or in ionized gases).

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Course unit content

<br />Ionized gases and plasmas. Free-particle gas: trajectories of charged particles in electric and magnetic fields. Classical theory of binary collisions. Cross sections. Kinetic theory of fluids and hydrodynamics: fundamental quantities. Microscopic evolution equations: Liouville equation and BBGKY hierarchy, collisionless Boltzmann equation, Vlasov equation.

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Bibliography

J.-L. Delcroix, Physique des Plasmas, Vol. I

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INTRODUCTION TO PLASMA PHYSICS cod. 14755

Learning objectives

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Full programme

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INTRODUCTION TO PLASMA PHYSICS
cod. 14755