Symmetrically designed fusion and heat concepts, space propulsion, energy conversion issues with a particular interest in kinetic analysis, plasma power balance, advanced fuels, alternative systems as new trends experiments theory, physics, engineering, very specific related areas such processes, cosmology, turbulence are important fundamental applied science from an engineering physics perspec...

This is an open book and notes take home examination and MUST be returned to me by 10:50AM on Wednesday, December 5th, 2007. Either hand it to me personally at the beginning of our last class, or leave it in a sealed envelope in my box in 700 One Park Place. If you have any questions, you should ask me, and no one else. Note that I will be out of town from 14 November through 25 November, but w...

Plasma physics is blossoming and flourishing. It is a very fertile research area, from both a scientific and technological point of view. It sheds light on various astroand geophysical phenomena: cosmic jets, solar flares, lightning bolts, and so on. Examples of plasma technology are, besides the classical example of discharge lamps: sterilisation, plasma medicines, removal of odour or NOx, etc...

These notes are intended to provide a brief primer in plasma physics, introducing common definitions, basic properties, and typical processes found in plasmas. These concepts are inherent in contemporary plasma-based accelerator schemes, and thus provide a foundation for the more advanced expositions that follow in this volume. No prior knowledge of plasma physics is required, but the reader is...

subject to the boundary conditions: U = Umax , at z = 0; and U 1, dU/dzo 0 as z -) oo. Here U = U/U ; U is the mean energy, 3/2 kT, of an electron; and Ue is the equilibrium energy to which the electron decays at an infinite distance z from the region of excitation. The dimensionless parameter z 0 is equal to pz, where p is the reciprocal of the free diffusion length in the radial direction of ...