Objectives of Programme's Learning Outcomes

• Master expertise.
• Have developed the knowledge and skills acquired in the previous cycle to a level that extends beyond the Bachelor's course in Physics, and which provides the basis for the development and implementation of original ideas in a professional context.
• Have acquired knowledge and a thorough understanding of specialist areas of physics in connection with mathematics and/or advanced laboratory practices required for these sectors.
• Have reached a level of knowledge and skill giving them access to the third cycle of the study programme / doctoral studies (only for two-year Master courses).
• Provide clear and accurate information.
• Share their knowledge and findings clearly and back them up rationally to specialist and non-specialist audiences.
• Grow personally and professionally.
• Present the appropriate knowledge and skills to the teaching profession in upper secondary school (for students in the teaching sector); present the appropriate knowledge and skills for professions using the skills of physicists (and other) in different sectors of society (for everyone).
• Have developed the skills that will enable them to continue to acquire knowledge independently.
• Have a creative and rigorous scientific approach
• Gather and interpret relevant scientific data and critically analyse it, distinguising working hypotheses of proven facts.
• Apply their knowledge, understanding and ability to solve problems in new or unfamiliar environments and in multidisciplinary contexts related to physical sciences.

Learning Outcomes of UE

At the end of this course, the student should be able to describe the plasma state, to give some examples, to define the fundamental parameters characterizing a plasma and how one can determine such parameters (notably in relation with thermonuclear fusion).

UE Content: description and pedagogical relevance

I. Introduction to plasma physics
- The plasma state
- Natural and laboratory plasmas
- Charged particle in electric and magnetic fields
- Stochastic processes in plasmas
- Plasma waves
II. Atomic processes in plasmas
- Radiative processes
- Collisional processes
- Population of atomic levels
- Spectral line shapes
- Applications to plasma diagnostics

Prior Experience

Electromagnetism, atomic and molecular physics