Ideas

• "What is a plasma": Saha equation, Paschen curve, number of particles per Debye sphere

  • Saha equation and Debye length exists, Paschen curve needs to be added.

• Debye shielding derivation: plot analytical potential solution and show how it agrees with the Debye length in PlasmaPy

  • Debye length is in PlasmaPy

• "How is temperature defined?": Calculate temperature as the moment of the Maxwellian, show how it agrees with the normal temperature, then show how the 'temperature' changes with non-Maxwellian distributions

  • No PlasmaPy functionality really necessary, but could use the existing thermal velocity function as part of this? Could optionally develop an arbitrary DistributionFunction class

• Educational notebooks on MHD and two-fluid waves that summarize the different waves and plot their dispersion relations in a way where you can easily change the plasma parameters and see how the dispersion curves change.

• Fusion reactivities and the Lawson parameter. Define the reactivity from the cross-section, then show the Lawson parameter calculated for different reactions to show why some fusion reactions are more accessible than others,

  • Reactivities requires tabulated cross-sections and a nuclear reaction class using Particles to access them. The Lawson parameter involves also including other effects like radiation and conduction.