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Plasma Waves - NEVF117

Title:	Vlny v plazmatu
Guaranteed by:	Department of Surface and Plasma Science (32-KFPP)
Faculty:	Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual:	from 2020
Semester:	winter
E-Credits:	5
Hours per week, examination:	winter s.:2/1, C+Ex [HT]
Capacity:	unlimited
Min. number of students:	unlimited
4EU+:	no
Virtual mobility / capacity:	no
State of the course:	taught
Language:	Czech, English
Teaching methods:	full-time
Teaching methods:	full-time
Additional information:	https://physics.mff.cuni.cz/kfpp/rozvrh.html

Guarantor:	prof. RNDr. Ondřej Santolík, Dr. prof. RNDr. František Němec, Ph.D.

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Annotation -

Last update: T_KEVF (13.05.2005)

Dispersion relation, wave modes. Cold-plasma model. Waves in a magnetised plasma. Hydromagnetic approximation. Kinetic approach, linear instabilities. Examples of different types of waves observed in space plasmas.

Course completion requirements - Czech

Last update: doc. RNDr. Jiří Pavlů, Ph.D. (03.06.2020)

Získání zápočtu je podmínkou pro konání zkoušky.

Udělení zápočtu je podmíněno průběžnou účastí na výuce, aktivitou při cvičeních a úspěšným absolvováním závěrečné písemky.

Povaha kontroly studia předmětu vylučuje opakování této kontroly, zápočet se tedy opakovat nedá.

Literature - Czech

Last update: doc. RNDr. Jiří Pavlů, Ph.D. (24.01.2019)

D. A. Gurnett and A. Bhattacharjee: Introduction to Plasma Physics: With Space, Laboratory and Astrophysical Applications 2nd Edition, Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Kral-Trivelpiece: Principles of Plasma Physics, San Francisco Press, 1986.

F. F. Chen: Úvod do fyziky plazmatu, Academia, Praha, 1984.

Stix: Waves in Plasmas, American Institute of Physics, New York, 1992.

M. G. Kivelson, C. T. -Russell: Introduction to Space Physics, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995.

Teaching methods -

Last update: doc. RNDr. Štěpán Roučka, Ph.D. (06.10.2020)

The lecture is conducted on-line in the winter semester 2020. For more information, see https://physics.mff.cuni.cz/kfpp/rozvrh.html

Requirements to the exam - Czech

Last update: doc. RNDr. Jiří Pavlů, Ph.D. (14.06.2019)

Zkouška je ústní a student dostává typicky dvě otázky ze sylabu předmětu v rozsahu, který byl prezentován na přednáškách.

Syllabus -

Last update: T_KEVF (13.05.2005)

Introduction to the theory of waves in plasmas, dispersion relations, characteristic frequencies, wave modes. Approximation of cold plasmas. Waves in magnetized plasmas. Resonances, cutoffs, resonance cone.

Wave-normal surfaces. Phase relations and polarizations CMA diagram. Energy density and group velocity. Analysis of wave propagation in inhomogeneous media.

Solutions to the dispersion relation in cold plasmas: Alfven modes, ion-cyclotron waves. Whistler mode, Z mode and free space modes. Waves in multi-ion plasmas.

Hydromagnetic approximation, MHD theory, slow and fast magnetosonic waves. Kinetic approach. Landau damping. Linear instabilities. Beam modes, Bernstein modes.

Type II and type III radio emissions in the solar wind. Lion roars. Waves in the equatorial region of the Earth's magnetosphere. Whistlers, equatorial noise, chorus and plasmaspheric hiss.

Waves in the auroral region. Auroral kilometric radiation, auroral hiss, and ion cyclotron harmonic radiation.