Smart phones, computers, displays, and solar cells are just a few examples of our daily-life objects in which plasmas play a vital role during their production. Plasmas serve also as lamps, advanced photon, ion and electron sources and also fusion energy is created by means of a plasma. In this course, attention will be given to the non-equilibrium character of this fourth-state of matter, its unique behavior under the influence of electromagnetic fields, and the generation of beams and radiation