Swedish Institute of Space Physics, IRF
http://www.irf.se/~christer/plasmForBeg.html

Plasmas for beginners



The ara as many plasmas as there are people who study them! Here are two type of plasmas you can think of.

WhirligigBeetle-Plasma.

It is two dimensional and consists of femaleWhirligigs, maleWhirligigs and waves:
Småland Sweden (1993 christer)

To the right: Single whirligigs makeing waves. Streaming water Puerto Rico (1995 christer)


More about them

IntensNightTraffic-Plasma.

It is unstable according to the twoStreamInstabillity




An interesting multi parameter system but not a plasma!

jan 1997 christer juren