PX392 Plasma Electrodynamics

Valery Nakariakov

 Plasma in Lab CME

The module syllabus:

  1. Generation of EM waves and retarded potentials. The power radiated by accelerating charges.
  2. The scattering of EM waves. Rayleigh scattering and Thompson scattering.
  3. Propogation of EM waves through plasmas.
  4. MHD description of plasmas and fluid like plasma instabilities.
  5. Vlasov's equation and micro-instabilities.