Create an example notebook for the CollisionFrequency class #1691
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Create a tutorial notebook for the CollisionFrequency class that explains a lot of the physics behind this calculation. Some ideas:
Go through the calculation of the collision frequencies, talk about the fast and slow limits, include a plot of psi like this:
Talk about calculation of the mean free path from the collision frequency and its role as a metric of collisionality.
Talk about the various other collision frequencies available as attributes, e.g the Maxwellian-averaged frequencies (Replace fundamental collision frequencies with CollisionFrequencies #1699. Move fundamental collision frequencies to
MaxwellianCollisionFrequencies
#1703) and temperature isotropization and equilibration times (Add temperature isotropization and thermal equilibration to CollisionFrequencies #1709)The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: