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This course highlights the properties and behavior of low-temperature plasmas in relation to energy conversion, plasma propulsion, and gas lasers
FREE
This course includes
Hours of videos
583 years, 3 months
Units & Quizzes
21
Unlimited Lifetime access
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Certificate of Completion
The course includes material on the equilibrium (energy states, statistical mechanics, and relationship to thermodynamics) and kinetic theory of ionized gases (motion of charged particles, distribution function, collisions, characteristic lengths and times, cross sections, and transport properties). In addition, the course discusses gas surface interactions (thermionic emission, sheaths, and probe theory) and radiation in plasmas and diagnostics.
Course Currilcum
- Fundamentals of Plasma Physics. Larmor Motion. Debye Shielding. Plasma Frequency Unlimited
- Motion of Charges in Uniform E and B fields. Diamagnetism. ExB Drift. Alfven Waves Unlimited
- Effects of an Inhomogeneous Magnetic Field. Inertia and Grad-B Drifts. Parallel Drifts and Magnetic Mirrors Unlimited
- Relationship between Drifts and the Fluid Picture Unlimited
- Time-varying B field. Adiabatic Invariants Unlimited
- Collision Theory. Energy and Momentum Transfer. Unlimited
- Kinetic Theory. Vlasov and Boltzmann Equations. Collisional Terms Unlimited
- Boltzmann’s H-Theorem. Relationship Between H and S (Entropy) Unlimited
- The Equilibrium Distribution and its Properties Unlimited
- Equilibrium in a Force Field. Distribution Functions near Repelling and Attracting Walls Unlimited
- Moments of the Boltzmann Equation Unlimited
- Maxwellian Collisions. Ohm’s Law. Ambipolar Diffusion Unlimited
- The Electron Energy Equation Unlimited
- Plasma-Wall Interactions Unlimited
- Electrostatic Probes. Floating Potential. Method of Medicus Unlimited
- Probes in the Orbital Motion-Limited (OML) Regime Unlimited
- Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics. Quantum Statistics Unlimited
- Some Important Results of Statistical Mechanics Unlimited
- The Electronic Partition Function for Atoms and Ions Unlimited
- Radiation Transport in a Gas. Equilibrium Distribution Unlimited
- Semi-thick Plasma Approximation Unlimited
