Basic Space Plasma Physics (Revised Edition)
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Adiabatic Particle Motion
Anomalous Resistivity
Aurora
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Author_Wolfgang Baumjohann
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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
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- ISBN 9781848168954
- Publication Date: 22 Mar 2012
- Publisher: Imperial College Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This textbook begins with a description of the Earth's plasma environment, followed by the derivation of single particle motions in electromagnetic fields, with applications to the Earth's magnetosphere. Also discussed are the origin and effects of collisions and conductivities, formation of the ionosphere, magnetospheric convection and dynamics, and solar wind-magnetosphere coupling.The second half of the book presents a more theoretical foundation of plasma physics, starting with kinetic theory. Introducing moments of distribution function permits the derivation of the fluid equations, followed by an analysis of fluid boundaries, with the Earth's magnetopause and bow shock as examples, and finally, fluid and kinetic theory are applied to derive the relevant wave modes in a plasma.This revised edition seamlessly integrates new sections on magnetopause reconstruction, as well as instability theory and thermal fluctuations based on new developments in space physics. Applications such as the important problems of collisionless reconnection and collisionless shocks are covered, and some problems have also been included at the end of each chapter.
