In its inaugural edition, Physics of Space Plasmas was the most widely used textbook for courses in space plasma physics, and included up-to-date observations from space available at the time. Throughout universities in the United States and abroad-it has proven itself indispensable. In the more than ten years since, an amazing number of new space plasma observations have been made. These more recent observations have revealed new and exciting information about space plasma. Now, incorporating new information from several NASA and ESA space missions, the completely revised second edition is expanded to include kinetic physics so that kinetic features in the plasma data can be explained more clearly. In addition, Parks now includes a clear and simple discussion of how electromagnetic fields behave in rotating frames. This thoroughly revised second edition retains the thoughtful examples and problems of the first edition and expands to include new examples, problem sets, schematic diagrams, and images that complement the new material.
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"A timely and welcome addition to the literature... the best textbook currently available." -- Nature
"Emphasizes theoretical expositions of virtually all of the physical processes that occur in space plasmas." -- Physics Today
"Emphasizes theoretical expositions of virtually all of the physical processes that occur in space plasmas." -- Physics Today
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George K. Parks is a research physicist at Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include the physics of auroras, solar flares, collisionless shocks, solar wind, particle acceleration mechanisms, and lightning.
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The years 1990-2002 are considered the "golden age" of space physics as more than two dozen scientific spacecraft were launched to study the electrodynamic phenomena of Sun, interplanetary space, and magnetospheres of magnetized planets. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
momentum transfer tensor, corotational electric field, electrostatic solitary waves, solar wind problem, ionospheric particles, solar wind electric field, guiding center theory, space plasma phenomena, solar wind frame, plasma sheet particles, magnetic neutral points, ring current particles, magnetopause boundary, foreshock region, coronal atmosphere, cyclotron resonance theory, interplanetary current sheet, ion tearing, auroral kilometric radiation, plasma sheet boundary layer, boundary coordinate system, total magnetic field intensity, current sheet model, field line motion, geomagnetic tail Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Concluding Remarks, Derive Equation, Van Allen, Kinetic Formulation of Boundaries, Kinetic Models of Solar Wind, Derivation of the Momentum Equation, Hannes Alfvén, Magnetohydrodynamic Waves New!
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The years 1990-2002 are considered the "golden age" of space physics as more than two dozen scientific spacecraft were launched to study the electrodynamic phenomena of Sun, interplanetary space, and magnetospheres of magnetized planets. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
momentum transfer tensor, corotational electric field, electrostatic solitary waves, solar wind problem, ionospheric particles, solar wind electric field, guiding center theory, space plasma phenomena, solar wind frame, plasma sheet particles, magnetic neutral points, ring current particles, magnetopause boundary, foreshock region, coronal atmosphere, cyclotron resonance theory, interplanetary current sheet, ion tearing, auroral kilometric radiation, plasma sheet boundary layer, boundary coordinate system, total magnetic field intensity, current sheet model, field line motion, geomagnetic tail Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Concluding Remarks, Derive Equation, Van Allen, Kinetic Formulation of Boundaries, Kinetic Models of Solar Wind, Derivation of the Momentum Equation, Hannes Alfvén, Magnetohydrodynamic Waves New!
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- The Solar System (Discovery Channel School Science: Universes Large and Small) by Lorraine Hopping Egan in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Physics of the Magnetosphere (Astrophysics and Space Science Library) by R.L. Carovillano in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Physics of Auroral Arc Formation (Geophysical Monograph) by Syun-Ichi Akasofu in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Solar System (3 Vol Set) (Magill's Choice) by Roger Smith in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Dynamics of the Magnetosphere (Astrophysics and Space Science Library) by Syun-Ichi Akasofu in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Introduction to Plasma Physics: With Space and Laboratory Applications by D. A. Gurnett on 4 pages
- The Sun as a Star by Roger John Tayler in Back Matter
- Space science by Louise K. Harra in Back Matter
- Solar System Update (Springer Praxis Books / Geophysical Sciences) by Philippe Blondel on page 50
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