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LECTURES-2: LECTURES ON GAS DYNAMICS

Based on the following books and lectures: The physics of Astrophysics, Volume-II: Gas Dynamics, Frank H. Shu

Date: February 2022

Topics of the Lectures:

• Overview:
  Single fluid theory and the radiative processes
  Applicability of a fluid approach
  Mean free path, Deby length, Plasma parameters, electron plasma frequency, and the charge separation
  Electric and magnetic fields
  Landau damping

• Kinetic and magnetohydrodynamic approach for fluid dynamics
  Fluids as continua
  Equilibria of self-gravitating spherical massesKinetic theory
  Magnetohydrodynamics and MHD waves
  Instabilities in plasma
  Magnetic viral theory
  Magnetic shock waves Magnetic decay: Ambipolar diffusion and magnetic decay
  Dynamo mechanism

• Saha equations

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LECTURES-1: LECTURES ON DARK MATTER

Based on the following books and lectures:

• The Scalar–Tensor Theory of Gravitation, YASUNORI FUJII, KEI-ICHI MAEDA

• Cosmology in Scalar-Tensor gravity, Valerio Faraoni

• Clifton, Ferreira, Padilla & Skordis, arXiv:1106.2476 4.

• https://wwwmpa.mpa-garching.mpg.de/~komatsu/lecturenotes/Alex_Barreira_on_Modified_Gravity.pdf

Date: March 2020

Lectures notes:

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