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Problem Set 1 (3D Debye)

This problem set involves calculating various plasma parameters for different plasma conditions: 1) Estimating the ionization rate for hydrogen gas at 30,000 K using the Saha equation. 2) Computing the Debye length, number density, Landau length, and interparticle distance for glow discharge and earth's ionosphere plasmas at different densities and temperatures. 3) Estimating the number of particles in a Debye sphere for laser fusion plasma at 40 million K and 10^33 m^-3 density. 4) Calculating average kinetic energy using Maxwellian distributions in 1D and 3D. 5) Solving Poisson's equation to show Debye shielding for a point charge in a hydrogen plasma and

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Problem Set 1 (3D Debye)

This problem set involves calculating various plasma parameters for different plasma conditions: 1) Estimating the ionization rate for hydrogen gas at 30,000 K using the Saha equation. 2) Computing the Debye length, number density, Landau length, and interparticle distance for glow discharge and earth's ionosphere plasmas at different densities and temperatures. 3) Estimating the number of particles in a Debye sphere for laser fusion plasma at 40 million K and 10^33 m^-3 density. 4) Calculating average kinetic energy using Maxwellian distributions in 1D and 3D. 5) Solving Poisson's equation to show Debye shielding for a point charge in a hydrogen plasma and

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Problem Set # 1

Due 3/12/2013 1.1 Using Saha Equation to estimate the ionization rate for the following hydrogen gas T = 30,000 K , U i = 8.6eV , n0 2.5 10 20 m 3

1.2 Compute the Debye length D , N D , the Landau length r0 and the average distance between two particles d e for following plasma: (a) A glow discharge, with n = 2.5 *1016 m 3 , k BTe = 3.6eV (b) The earths ionosphere, with n = 2.5 *1012 m 3 , k BTe = 0.26eV (c) A Z-pinch, with n = 2.6 *10 23 m 3 , kTe = 800eV 1.3 In laser fusion, the core of a small pellet of DT is compressed to a density of at a temperature of 40,000,000 K, Estimate the number of particles in a 1033 m 3 Debye sphere in this plasma . 1.4 Calculate the average kinetic energy for an equilibrium plasma with the Maxwellian distribution, 1 f (u ) = A exp( mu 2 / k BT ) 2 in one-dimension and three-dimension respectively, where A is the normalization factor to be determined, satisfying

duf (u ) = n
Prove the Equipartition theorem in the statistical mechanics. 1.5 (bonus %2) Consider a point charge in a vacuum, q at r=0. The electric potential of this test charge is given by q = 4 0 r = 0, as r Then insert this point charge in a hydrogenic plasma with density n0 and temperature T0 . Use Poisson Equation to solve for the 3D electric potential (r , , ) . Convince that the Debye shielding effect still exists and find the Debye length in this case.

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