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Enables students to understand and master basic and advanced concepts of space, atmosphere, and ionospheric physics
A Problem-Solving Workbook on Ionospheric and Space Physics is a unique textbook that contains a set of problems and exercises accompanied with complete solutions that explore and elucidate the most relevant concepts in ionospheric and space physics. The author has chosen problems that are interesting topic-wise, challenging, and that exemplify the physical and mathematical reasoning in ionospheric and space physics.
Specifically, the text conveys core concepts of ionospheric and space physics using a problem-based approach. Each problem elucidates prototypical aspects that readers can easily generalize. Each problem also consists of multi-part questions to facilitate step-by-step understanding. A short introduction to each problem defines the theme and provides context to the readers.
In A Problem-Solving Workbook on Ionospheric and Space Physics, readers can expect to learn about:
Thanks to the careful selection of included material, A Problem-Solving Workbook on Ionospheric and Space Physics serves as a gateway for advanced students and early-career researchers towards actual research-level problems in the field. As the problems are textbook-agnostic, students can easily self-study and learn about the subject outside the classroom.
Rezy Pradipta, PhD, is Research Scientist at Boston College, MA, USA.
Chapter 1. Ionosonde: Sensing Ionospheric Plasmas from the Ground
Chapter 2. Seeing Ghost: Slab Thickness of a Transparent Layer
Chapter 3. Reflectometry: A Classical Mechanics Analogy
Chapter 4. Doppler Effects in Reflection/Refraction of Electromagnetic Waves
Chapter 5. Chapman Theory of Ionospheric Layer Formation
Chapter 6. Magnetic Fields Resulting from the Equatorial Electrojet Current
Chapter 7. Fundamentals of GPS Total Electron Content (TEC) Measurements
Chapter 8. Barker Codes and Radar Pulse Compression
Chapter 9. Abel Inversion of Ionosonde Trace Data
Chapter 10. Phase and Group Velocities of Acoustic-Gravity Waves
Chapter 11. Direction-scan Radar and Deconvolution
Chapter 12. Wind Shear, Sporadic-E Layer, and Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability
Chapter 13. Brunt-Vaisala Frequency and Convective Instability
Chapter 14. Bragg Scattering and Ionospheric Radars
Chapter 15. Whistler Waves in the Ionosphere and Magnetosphere
Chapter 16. Radio Wave Absorption in the D-region Ionosphere
Chapter 17. Magnetic Mirrors and the Loss Cone
Chapter 18. Witchcraft: Poor Man's Abel Inversion of Ionograms
Chapter 19. Kolmogorov's 5/3 Law: An Order in Disorders
Chapter 20. Pushed to the Limit: True Resolution in Spectroscopy
Chapter 21. Fabry-Perot Interferometers and the Optical Airglow
Chapter 22. MIR Mortals: Rapid Depressurization in Space
Chapter 23. The Gradient-B Plasma Drift Demystified
Chapter 24. No Escape: Charged Particles in Magnetic Field
Chapter 25. The Sun is Down, the Equatorial Plasma Bubbles are Up
Chapter 26. Don't Put out the Glow: What in Heaven is this Rayleigh Unit?
Chapter 27. Focus! Parabolic Ionospheric Layer Approximation
Chapter 28. Fast and Furious: Zonal Drift
Chapter 29. E x B Drift for Explorers
Chapter 30. Drunken Forest in Space: Why do the Bubbles Tilt?
Chapter 31. Linking Two Hemispheres: Geomagnetic Field Conjugacy
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