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9781860940170

Basic Space Plasma Physics

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    9781860940170

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    186094017X

  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 1996-09-01
  • Publisher: World Scientific Publishing
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Table of Contents

Preface ix
Introduction
1(10)
Definition of a Plasma
1(4)
Geophysical Plasmas
5(3)
Magnetospheric Currents
8(1)
Theoretical Approaches
9(2)
Single Particle Motion
11(20)
Field Equations
11(1)
Gyration
12(3)
Electric Drifts
15(3)
Magnetic Drifts
18(4)
Adiabatic Invariants
22(9)
Trapped Particles
31(16)
Dipole Field
32(1)
Bounce Motion
33(5)
Drift Motion
38(3)
Sources and Sinks
41(2)
Ring Current
43(4)
Collisions and Conductivity
47(26)
Collisions
47(5)
Plasma Conductivity
52(4)
Ionosphere Formation
56(9)
Ionospheric Conductivity
65(2)
Ionospheric Currents
67(3)
Auroral Emissions
70(3)
Convection and Substorms
73(30)
Diffusion and Frozen Flux
73(6)
Convection Electric Field
79(3)
Corotation and Plasmasphere
82(3)
High-Latitude Electrodynamics
85(4)
Auroral Electrojets
89(3)
Magnetospheric Substorms
92(4)
Substorm Currents
96(7)
Elements of Kinetic Theory
103(26)
Exact Phase Space Density
104(4)
Average Distribution Function
108(6)
Velocity Distributions
114(6)
Measured Distribution Functions
120(4)
Macroscopic Variables
124(5)
Magnetohydrodynamics
129(30)
Multi-Fluid Theory
129(4)
Equation of State
133(5)
One-Fluid Theory
138(8)
Stationarity and Equilibra
146(13)
Flows and Discontinuities
159(40)
Solar Wind
159(6)
Fluid Boundaries
165(6)
Discontinuities
171(5)
Shocks
176(5)
Bow Shock
181(5)
Magnetopause
186(13)
Waves in Plasma Fluids
199(48)
Waves in Unmagnetized Fluids
200(10)
General Dispersion Relation
210(6)
Plasma Wave Energy
216(4)
Magnetohydrodynamic Waves
220(5)
Cold Electron Plasma Waves
225(9)
Two-Fluid Plasma Waves
234(7)
Geomagnetic Pulsations
241(6)
Wave Kinetic Theory
247(48)
Landau-Laplace Procedure
247(6)
Landau Damping
253(7)
Unmagnetized Plasma Waves
260(9)
Magnetized Dispersion Relation
269(3)
Electrostatic Plasma Waves
272(11)
Electromagnetic Plasma Waves
283(12)
Outlook 295(30)
Some Basics
297(14)
Useful Constants
297(1)
Energy Units
297(1)
Useful Formulas
298(1)
Vectors and Tensors
299(2)
Some Electrodynamics
301(4)
Plasma Entropy
305(1)
Aspects of Analytic Theory
306(5)
Some Extensions
311(14)
Coulomb Logarithm
311(2)
Transport Coefficients
313(2)
Geomagnetic Indices
315(3)
Liouville Approach
318(2)
Clemmow-Mullaly-Allis Diagram
320(1)
Magnetized Dielectric Tensor
321(4)
Index 325

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