Physics and Fusion Home Page

Welcome to my physics and fusion home page. There are introductions to fusion via magnetically confined plasmas, plus a few fields of physics which are both dear to my heart and within my experience as a scientist. There are many links to the basic concepts one encounters, as well as to more detailed information, such as lectures (technical, text level) editorials (nontechnical), posters (introductory, pictorial), write-ups (technical, introductory), papers (research material), and codes (numerical models).

New! There is now a separate page for Presentations

Neu! Skripten zu Vorlesungen (dt)

I hope you enjoy them as much as I.

Good jumping off points for hot news:

• Physics
• Cosmology
• Space (incl sci, tech, business, politics)
• Astronomy Picture of the Day

Fusion with plasmas and magnetic fields

• The Place of Fusion: What is fusion and why do we want to make it happen?
• The Thermonuclear Plasma: What is a plasma and why do we use it?
• Confining the Plasma: Why build a big device with a strong, expensive magnetic field?
• What is (or are)...
  • anomalous transport and drift instabilities?
  • fluid drift motion? ``E-cross-B drift'' and the like...
  • a drift wave?
  • magnetohydrodynamics (MHD)?
  • a tokamak?
• Links to fusion labs
• NRL Plasma Formulary, on-line locally or in the US, or locally in postscript

Some interesting things in astrophysics

• The life, birth, and death of a star, sunlike or otherwise
• The dregs of the stellar nursery, from which planets form
• Curious origins of planets and moons
• Links to astrophysical institutes, data and images
• What is (or are)...
  • Dark Matter?
  • magnetars?

Physics

• Tutorials
  • relativity (by Ned Wright)
  • cosmology (by Ned Wright)
  • general relativity (by John Baez)
  • elementary particles (by John Baez)
• Frequently Asked Questions in
  • physics
  • relativity
    • the tricky question of energy in GR
  • cosmology
• What is (or are)...
  • Noether's Theorem (see also this symmetry in physics site)
  • virtual particles
  • a black hole
  • dark matter
  • the Big Bang
• Faster than light in special relativity?
• relativistic rocket travel
• deflection of light and particles in general relativity (40k postscript)
• Chris Hillman's fun and games with GR (including warp drive metrics)
• Preprint Servers, or go direct from the US or from within Germany
• TASI Lectures 96, introductory material to modern field theory
• Physical Review Focus, making recent articles more widely accessible
• PACS, section 50 (plasma physics)
• The Net Advance of Physics
• Fundamental Constants
• Particle Data Group (CERN mirror)
  • Experimental Limits ... (table of contents, including photon mass, stability of proton and electron against decay, etc)
• The Ultimate Neutrino Page by Juha Peltoniemi
• This Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics by John Baez
  • some other links to things in mathematical physics
• Physics Around the World, from Europe, or from North America (please use the appropriate continent)
• Backlight, the Relativistic Raytracer, or, visualising relativity (a fantastic site)
  also see C-Ship
• Bob Park's What's New
• Physics Today

Other areas

• Soga Tech's Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
• Numerical techniques and links
• High Performance Computing
• Links to graphics information
• Space Stuff
• University of St Andrews MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
• Links to information on Climatology
• the TERRA geodynamics model
• LIGO (laser interferometer gravitational-wave observatory)
• Biotech Food

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Brought to you by Dr B Scott, Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik