Designed as a text for upper-level undergraduate and first-year graduate students, this volume attempts to establish the curriculum for the modern student entering the fledgling field of space physics. The book provides a broad, yet selective, treatment of the subject, covering virtually all aspects of space plasmas in the solar system. There are sections on the sun and solar wind, the magnetized and unmagnetized planets, and the fundamental process of space plasmas including shocks, plasma waves, ULF waves, wave-particle interactions, and auroral processes. In addition to emphasizing analysis, the authors also place importance on underlying phenomenology with extensive attention to observations.
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"...contains a wealth of information in well-summarized fashion...should be considered a valuable reference text for those who would rather hear from the experts than from a single voice." Elmar R. Reiter, Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics
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Designed as a text for upper-level undergraduate and first-year graduate students, this volume attempts to establish the curriculum for the modern student entering the emerging field of space physics, by covering almost all aspects of space plasmas in the solar system.
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This is a very comprehensive book. It is excellent if you are beginer who knows basic electricity and magnetism, but have not dealt with space plasmas.
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This book is an excellant introduction to the field of Space Physics. Unfortunately, it has not been updated since its original publication. It would be nice to have the results of the extensive research that has been done since then incorporated into a new edition of this book. Even so, I have not come across any other books published since then that are nearly as good. When I bought my copy ten years ago, I would certainly have given it 5 stars.
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SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS is principally concerned with the interaction of energetic charged particles with the electric and magnetic fields in space. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lobe field strength, central plasma sheet, upstream flow speed, upstream magnetic field, auroral bulge, ionospheric magnetic field, sheet earthward, substorm current wedge, magnetosheath flow, coplanarity theorem, magnetosheath ions, magnetosheath plasma, magnetospheric magnetic field, gyrational motion, inner plasma sheet, plasma mantle, supercritical shock, auroral spectrum, convection electric field, first negative bands, open flux tubes, auroral forms, closed field lines, magnetospheric cavity, substorm expansion Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS is principally concerned with the interaction of energetic charged particles with the electric and magnetic fields in space. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lobe field strength, central plasma sheet, upstream flow speed, upstream magnetic field, auroral bulge, ionospheric magnetic field, sheet earthward, substorm current wedge, magnetosheath flow, coplanarity theorem, magnetosheath ions, magnetosheath plasma, magnetospheric magnetic field, gyrational motion, inner plasma sheet, plasma mantle, supercritical shock, auroral spectrum, convection electric field, first negative bands, open flux tubes, auroral forms, closed field lines, magnetospheric cavity, substorm expansion Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Van Allen, Academic Press, American Geophysical Union, Cambridge University Press, North Pole, South Atlantic, Space Sci, Dynamics Explorer, Obstacle Radii, South Pole, Vallance Jones, Clarendon Press, Kristian Birkeland, Oxford University Press, Plasma Dynamics New!
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- The Solar System (3 Vol Set) (Magill's Choice) by Roger Smith on 4 pages
- Solar System Magnetic Fields (Geophysics and Astrophysics Monographs) by E.R. Priest on 4 pages
- Physics of the Jovian Magnetosphere (Cambridge Planetary Science Old) by A. J. Dessler on page 519, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Magnetotail Physics (Johns Hopkins Studies in Earth and Planetary Sciences) by Professor Anthony T.Y. Lui on page 285, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Dynamics and Structure of Quiescent Solar Prominences (Astrophysics and Space Science Library) by E.R. Priest on page 88, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Planetary Sciences by Imke de Pater on 6 pages
- Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics by Dr Martin V. Zombeck on 5 pages
- Introduction to Plasma Physics: With Space and Laboratory Applications by D. A. Gurnett on page 136, page 250, and page 280
- Magnetic Reconnection: MHD Theory and Applications by Eric Priest in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Principles of Magnetohydrodynamics: With Applications to Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas by J. P. Hans Goedbloed on page 31, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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