Plasma Confinement: Single Particle Perspective

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Covers MHD equilibrium configurations, including tokamak and stellarator concepts, force balance equations, and safety factors.

Explores Magnetohydrodynamic equilibrium and stability, ideal MHD solutions, 'hairy ball' theorem, and boundary conditions.

Covers the basics of plasma physics, focusing on magnetic confinement and field effects on particles.

Explores stellarators as alternatives to tokamaks, discussing 3D magnetic configurations, pros and cons, history, and other confinement concepts.

Covers magnetic fields, Ampère's law, and magnetic dipoles with examples and illustrations.

Covers the dynamics of particles in electric and magnetic fields in plasma physics.

Covers the behavior of particles in E and B fields, focusing on magnetic confinement.

Explores MHD equilibrium configurations in 2D, focusing on tokamaks and stellarators for magnetic confinement.

Explores the main elements and properties of a tokamak, including shaping, safety factor, equilibrium, and the JET tokamak.

Explores MHD dynamo theory, covering magnetic field generation by conductive fluid and the Babcock-Leighton mechanism.