MIT OpenCourseWare
Introduction to Plasma Physics I
Art: Not determined, Figure 7 of Radio-active substances, 1904 · Public domain
- Instructors
- Prof. Ian Hutchinson, Prof. Jeffrey Freidberg
- Term
- Fall 2003
- Level
- Graduate
- What's inside
- 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 14 other files · 4 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
Other versions of this course
- 22.611J · Fall 2006 · Study here
- 22.611J · Fall 2003 · Study here (this version)
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 22.611J Introduction to Plasma Physics I, Fall 2003, Prof. Ian Hutchinson, Prof. Jeffrey Freidberg — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: none is claimed; materials are grouped by MIT's own sections. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
Materials are grouped the way MIT organized them. A verified, course-wide order has not been established here.
Before you start
Prerequisites are not listed here. Check MIT's own syllabus for this course.
How this course was organized
What's here, and what isn't
- MIT lists a session calendar for this course, but it could not be verified well enough to build a sequence from it — materials are grouped by section instead.
Not included here
4 items from the source could not be safely included:
- MIT's page format for this item wasn't recognized clearly enough to place it safely. (3 items)
- Referenced in a table, but without MIT's own verified order, so it isn't used to claim a sequence.
Materials by section
Grouped by section, as MIT organized them. Not sequenced or ordered.
Lecture Notes
- Introduction 1.1 - What is a Plasma? 1.1.1 - An Ionized Gas Download
- Motion of Charged Particles in Fields 2.1 - Uniform B field, E = 0 2.1.1 - Qualitatively Download
- Collisions in Plasmas 3.1 - Binary Collisions between Charged Particles 3.1.1 - Frames of Reference Download
- Fluid Description of Plasma 4.1 - Particle Conservation (In 2-d Space) Download
- Electromagnetic Waves in Plasmas Download
Assignments
- Problem 1 Download
- Problem 2 Download
- Problem 3 Download
- Problem 4 Download
- Problem 5 Download
- Problem 6 Download
Study Materials
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Ian Hutchinson, Prof. Jeffrey Freidberg, 22.611J Introduction to Plasma Physics I, Fall 2003.
License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · Edition: Fall 2003 · Open the original course on OCW ↗
Organized by RedLectern, independent of MIT and not endorsed by MIT.
Per-resource rights are recorded on each resource; All-Rights-Reserved items are link-only, never mirrored.