Basic Space Plasma Physics (Third Edition)

by Wolfgang Baumjohann and Rudolf A Treumann

Book Overview

This textbook describes Earth's plasma environment from single particle motion in electromagnetic fields, with applications to Earth's magnetosphere, up to plasma wave generation and wave-particle interaction. The origin and effects of collisions and conductivities are discussed in detail, as is the formation of the ionosphere, the origin of magnetospheric convection and magnetospheric dynamics in solar wind-magnetosphere coupling, the evolution of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9811254400
• ISBN13: 9789811254406
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"