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Basic Space Plasma Physics
by Wolfgang Baumjohann
Available from Powells Used Books
$47.75
on 10-15-2008
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Features
ISBN Number: 9781860940798
Written by: Baumjohann, Wolfgang
Published by: World Scientific Publishing Company
Written by: Baumjohann, Wolfgang
Written by: Treumann, Rudolf A.
Location: London
Subject: Astrophysics & Space Science
Subject: Space plasmas
Subject: Cosmic physics
Edition Description: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series Volume: 86-15
Date of Publication: September 1996
Cover Type: Paperback
Written in: English
Illustrations: Yes
Number of Pages: 340
Book Size: 844x622x72 100
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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