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Basic Space Plasma Physics (Hardcover)
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Basic Space Plasma Physics (Hardcover)
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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.
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