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Basic Space Plasma Physics

By Rudolf A. Treumann , W. Baumjohann

Book information

Publisher
Imperial College Press; Distributed by World Scientific Pub
Year
1996
ISBN
9781860940170, 186094017X
LCC
QC809.P5 B39 1996
Open Library ID
OL717118M
Language
english
Format
RAR
Filesize
20 MB (21119817 bytes)
Pages
329\0
Topic
Physics
Library
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Time added
2010-05-31 15:29:46

Description

This textbook deals with the requirements of space physics. The first part starts with a description of the Earth's plasma environment, followed by a derivation of single particle motions in electromagnetic fields, with applications to the Earth's magnetosphere. Then the origin and effects of collisions and conductivities, formation of the ionosphere, magnetospheric convection and dynamics, and solar wind-magnetosphere coupling are discussed. The second part of the book presents a more theoretical foundation of plasma physics, starting from kinetic theory. Introducing moments of the distribution function permits derivation of the fluid equations, followed by an analysis of fluid boundaries, with the Earth's magnetopause and bow shock as examples. Finally, fluid and kinetic theory are applied to derive the relevant wave modes in a plasma. A representative selection of the many space plasma instabilities and relevant aspects of nonlinear theory is given in a companion textbook, Advanced Space Plasma Physics, by the same authors.

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