Objectives of Programme's Learning Outcomes

• Learning organisation skills applicable within a collective dynamic.
• Identify individual training needs and participate in identifying the training needs of the teaching team.
• Skills for organising and supporting learning in an evolving dynamic.
• Understand the subject content, its epistemological foundations, its scientific and technological development, its didactics and teaching methodology.
• Understand the learning process and research the various models and theories of teaching.

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