The Minute Paper for Chapter 3 (Due October 1 in class)
Answer each question in 1 or 2 sentences:
(1) What was the most useful or meaningful
thing you learned from this Chapter?
(2) What
question(s) remain upper-most in your mind as we end this Chapter?
(3) What
was least clear to you?
HW Due October 1 in class
#1 Plot the phase velocity versus kLe for high frequency plasma waves
#2 Derive the group velocity of the electron plasma waves and plot the group velocity versus kLe.
#3 Analyze the ion wave dispersion relation in (26) for nonzero ion temperature. Sketch the ion wave dispersion curve using the same coordinate system as in Fig. 3.
#4 Plot the dispersion curve in (30) for the EM waves in Fig. 1 to compare with the dispersion curve in (11) for the high frequency plasma waves.
HW Due October 8 in class
#5 Fill in the missing steps in arriving at (38) and (40).
#6