Basic theoretical concepts: Phase and configuration space -- Boltzmann collision integral, H-theorem and Fokker-Planck equation -- Interaction potentials and cross sections -- Kinetic equations for dilute particles in gases -- Charged particles in condensed matter -- Fluid modelling: foundations and first applications -- Fluid models with inelastic collisions -- Fluid modelling with loss and creation processes -- Fluid modelling in condensed matter -- Strategies and regimes for solution of kinetic equations -- Numerical techniques for solution of Boltzmanns equation -- Boundary conditions, diffusion cooling and a variational method -- An analytically solvable model -- Temporal non-locality -- The Franck-Hertz experiment -- Positron transport in soft condensed matter, with application to PET -- Transport in electric and magnetic fields and particle detectors -- Muons in gases and condensed matter.
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