Topics:

1. Fundamentals: (plasma approximation and definition of plasma, Coulomb collisions, review of E&M)
2. Motion of Charged Particles in Magnetic Field: (gyromotion, drifts, adiabatic invariants, confinement in magnetic wells, toroidal confinement)
3. Plasma Kinetic Theory: (Boltzman and Vlasov equations, drift kinetic approximation, Fokker-Planck approximation, derivation of fluid approximation)
4. Plasma Equilibria : (general properties, toroidal equilibria, flux surface coordinates, magnetic field diffusion)
5. Transport Theory: (neoclassical and collective turbulent transport)
6. Plasma Waves: (waves in cold plasma, Langmuir waves and Landau damping, Vlasov theory, electrostatic waves)
7. Plasma Stability: (general principles, hydromagnetic instabilities, energy principle, pinch and kink instabilities, interchange instabilities, resistive instabilities, drift wave instabilities, loss-cone and drift-cone instabilities)
8. Plasma Heating & Current Drive: (resistive heating, adiabatic compression, neutral beam injection, radiofrequency and microwave injection, non-inductive current drive, alpha heating)
9. Radiation from a Plasma: (radiation fields, bremsstrahlung, cyclotron radiation, impurity radiation)
10. Plasma-Materials Interactions: (plasma sheath, physical and chemical sputtering, reflection)
11. Atomic/Molecular-Plasma Interactions:(atomic and molecular processes in plasmas)
12. Transport in Partially-ionized Plasmas: (multispecies plasma and atom/molecule transport methods)

Prepared by: W. M. Stacey
Date: 3/10/97

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Revised January 2004