Ashwini Kumar Sharma, Ph. D. Professor Department of Physics Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati Guwahati - 781 039, Assam, INDIA e-mail:    aksharma@iitg.ac.in Phone:  +91-361-258-2724 (Off.) Fax:        +91-361-2582749 / 2690762

PH451: Plasma Physics, July - November, 2025

Welcome to the course PH451. This web page is intended to provide all the necessary information about the course.

Course coordinator

Dr Ashwini Kumar Sharma
Room No. 107
Department of Physics,
Email: aksharma@iitg.ernet.in
Tel: 2724

• Course details
• Class Schedule
• Exam Schedule
• Assignments

Course details

General definition and properties of plasma, Motion of the charged particles in space and time varying electromagnetic field, Kinetic theory and thermodynamics of Plasma, Debye shielding, Boltzman and Fokker-Planck equation, Transport and collision in plasma, plasma fluid theory, hydrodynamics and magneto hydrodynamics, magnetic mirror, waves in plasma, plasma instabilities, plasma radiation and Plasma spectroscopy, Boltzman –Saha equation, neutral and non neutral plasma, Generation and diagnostics of plasma, plasma processing and other industrial applications industrial, Tokamak, nuclear fusion.

Texts and References:

1. J A Bittencourt, Fundamentals of Plasma Physics(3rd Edition), Springer (2008)

2. Chen, Francis F, Introduction to plasma Physics and controlled fusion, Plenum Press NY (1984).

3. Robert J. Goldston and Paul H. Rutherford, Introduction to plasma physics, IOP, Bristol (1995).

4. Griem, Hans R., Principles of plasma spectroscopy, University Press, Cambridge (1997)

5. I H Hutchinson, Principles of Plasma Diagnostics, Cambridge (1994)

You may also refer any other book that you feel comfortable with.

Class Schedule

Lectures:

Room No.: 4202

Monday: 10:00 - 10:55 hrs

Tuesday: 10:00 - 10:55 hrs

Wednesday : 09:00 -09:55 hrs

Student timings: Through appointment (by email)

ExamSchedule

TBA: To be announced by the academic section.

Assignments

Term paper 15%. You will be provided with a set of topics. You will work on any one of these topics. Finally, you will submit a report and make a short 10 minutes presentation.