Introduction to space physics
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 subject through highly coordinated chapters, written by experts in their fields.
Print Book, English, 1996
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University Press, Cambridge, 1996
XV, 568 p. : il. ; 26 cm
9780521451048, 9780521457149, 0521451043, 0521457149
911310117
Introduction; 1. Brief history of solar terrestrial physics; 2. Physics of space plasmas; 3. The Sun; 4. The solar wind; 5. Collisionless shocks; 6. Interactions with magnetized planets; 7. Ionospheres; 8. Interactions with unmagnetized bodies; 9. Magnetopause, tail and reconnection; 10. Magnetospheric configuration; 11. Magnetic pulsations; 12. Plasma waves; 13. Magnetospheric dynamics; 14. The aurora and the auroral ionosphere; 15. Magnetospheres of outer planets; Appendices; Index.