Sayan Adhikari

Teaching

Lecture materials from the plasma physics course I taught at the University of Oslo. Earlier, I taught computational physics to doctoral students at the Centre of Plasma Physics in India.

FYS4620/9620, An Introduction to Plasma Physics

Postgraduate course, Department of Physics, University of Oslo. Spring 2022.

The course covers the basic principles of plasmas, waves in plasma, and the stability of equilibrium solutions, with examples from the Earth's ionosphere and magnetosphere. Students learn to formulate the fluid equations for plasma from MHD to kinetic scales, derive dispersion relations, and build a simplified model of the magnetosphere.

Recommended background: FYS2160 Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics and FYS2140 Quantum Physics.

Lectures

  1. Debye shielding

    9 Feb 2022

  2. Lecture 6

    11 Feb 2022

  3. Collisions in a magnetic field and the plasma sheath

    16 Feb 2022

  4. Lecture 8

    23 Feb 2022

  5. Equations of state and dynamic solutions

    25 Feb 2022

  6. Ideal MHD

    2 Mar 2022

  7. Ideal MHD and Faraday's law

    4 Mar 2022

  8. Magnetic pressure and Earth's magnetosphere

    9 Mar 2022

  9. Dynamic solutions to the MHD equations, Alfvén waves

    11 Mar 2022

  10. Compressional Alfvén waves

    16 Mar 2022

  11. Ideal electron MHD

    18 Mar 2022

  12. Plasma as a mixture of charged gases

    23 Mar 2022