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Title

Introduction to space physics / edited by Margaret G. Kivelson, Christopher T. Russell.

Publication

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995.

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Additional Authors

• Kivelson, M. G. (Margaret Galland), 1928-
• Russell, C. T. (Christopher T.)

Description

xv, 568 pages : illustrations; 27 cm

Summary

• All aspects of space plasmas in the solar system are introduced and explored in this text for senior undergraduate and graduate students. Introduction to Space Physics provides a broad, yet selective, treatment of the complex interactions of the ionized gases of the solar-terrestrial environment.
• The book includes extensive discussions of the sun and solar wind, the magnetized and unmagnetized planets, and the fundamental processes of space plasmas, including shocks, plasma waves, ULF waves, wave-particle interactions, and auroral processes. The text devotes particular attention to space-plasma observations and integrates these with phenomenological and theoretical interpretations.
• . Highly coordinated chapters, written by experts in their fields, combine to provide a comprehensive introduction to space physics. Based on an advanced undergraduate and graduate course presented in the Department of Earth and Space Sciences at UCLA, the text will be valuable to both students and professionals in the field.

Subject

• Space plasmas
• Planets
• Sun

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 545-562) and index.

Contents

• 1. A Brief History of Solar-Terrestrial Physics / C. T. Russell -- 2. Physics of Space Plasmas / M. G. Kivelson -- 3. The Sun and Its Magnetohydrodynamics / E. R. Priest -- 4. The Solar Wind / A. J. Hundhausen -- 5. Collisionless Shocks / D. Burgess -- 6. Solar-Wind Interactions with Magnetized Planets / R. J. Walker and C. T. Russell -- 7. Ionospheres / J. G. Luhmann -- 8. Plasma Interactions with Unmagnetized Bodies / J. G. Luhmann -- 9. The Magnetopause, Magnetotail, and Magnetic Reconnection / W. J. Hughes -- 10. Magnetospheric Configuration / R. A. Wolf -- 11. Pulsations and Magnetohydrodynamic Waves / M. G. Kivelson -- 12. Plasma Waves / C. K. Goetz and R. J. Strangeway -- 13. Magnetospheric Dynamics / R. L. McPherron -- 14. The Aurora and the Auroral Ionosphere / H. C. Carlson, Jr. and A. Egeland -- 15. The Magnetospheres of the Outer Planets / C. T. Russell and R. J. Walker -- Appendix 1: Notation, Vector Identities, and Differential Operators.
• Appendix 2: Fundamental Constants and Plasma Parameters of Space Physics -- Appendix 3: Geophysical Coordinate Transformations.

ISBN

• 0521451043
• 0521457149 (pbk.)

LCCN

94019084

OCLC

• 30509600
• ocm30509600

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries