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Adiabatic Particle Motion
Anomalous Resistivity
Aurora
Author_Rudolf A Treumann
Author_Wolfgang Baumjohann
Category=PHFP
Collisionless Shocks
Cosmical Physics
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Extraterrestrial Physics
Generalized Ohm's Law
Geomagnetic Tail
Ionosphere
Kinetic Plasma Theory
Kinetic Theory
Magnetohydrodynamics
Magnetosphere
Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Coupling
Magnetospheric Physics
MHD
Nonlinear Plasma Physics
Plasma Instabilities
Plasma Physics
Plasma Theory
Plasma Turbulence
Plasma Waves
Radiation Belts
Solitons
Space Physics
Space Plasma Physics
Space Weather
Substorms
Product details
- ISBN 9781860940798
- Publication Date: 01 Sep 1996
- Publisher: Imperial College Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
