Fundamentals of Cosmic Electrodynamics

By: B.V. Somov

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Hardcover | 31 July 1994

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Cosmic electrodynamics is the specific branch of plasma physics which studies electromagnetic phenomena -- mostly the role of electromagnetic forces in dynamics of highly-conducting compressible medium in the solar interior and atmosphere, solar wind, in the Earth's magnetosphere and magnetospheres of other planets as well as pulsars and other astrophysical objects.
This textbook is written to be used at several different levels. It is aimed primarily at beginning graduate students who are assumed to have a knowledge of basic physics. Starting from the language of plasma physics, from Maxwell's equations, the author guides the reader into the more specialized concepts of cosmic electrodynamics.
The main attention in the book is paid to physics rather than maths. However, the clear mathematical image of physical processes in space plasma is presented and spelled out in the surrounding text. There is not another way to work in modern astrophysics at the quantitative level.
The book will also be useful for professional astronomers and for specialists, who investigate cosmic plasmas from space, as well as for everybody who is interested in modern astrophysics.

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Preface
Introduction	p. 1
Charged Particles in the Electromagnetic Field	p. 5
The Motion of a Charged Particle in Given Fields	p. 15
Coulomb Collisions of Particles	p. 47
Statistical Description of a Plasma	p. 59
Hydrodynamic Description of a Plasma	p. 81
Magnetohydrodynamics	p. 101
Plasma Flows in a Strong Magnetic Field	p. 117
Waves and Discontinuous Flows in a MHD Medium	p. 135
Evolutionarity of MHD discontinuities	p. 167
Plasma Equilibrium in a Magnetic Field	p. 179
Stationary Plasma Flows in a Magnetic Field	p. 197
Magnetic Reconnection in Current Sheets	p. 221
Evolutionarity of current sheets	p. 249
Tearing Instability of the Reconnecting Current Sheet	p. 273
Selected Trends in Cosmic Electrodynamics	p. 297
Reconnection of Electric Currents	p. 307
Appendix 1. Notation	p. 325
Appendix 2. Useful Expressions	p. 333
Appendix 3. Constants	p. 335
Bibliography	p. 337
Index	p. 355
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