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Physical Processes in Solar System - NEVF504
Title: Fyzikální procesy ve sluneční soustavě
Guaranteed by: Department of Surface and Plasma Science (32-KFPP)
Faculty: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual: from 2020
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 3
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, 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. Jana Šafránková, DrSc.
Class: DS, fyzika plazmatu a ionizovaných prostředí
Classification: Physics > Surface Physics and P. of Ion.M.
Comes under: Pro rok 2020/2021 + 2022/2023...
Year 2020/2021 + 2022/2023...
Annotation -
Last update: T_KEVF (13.05.2005)
Fundamental processes in magnetized plasma. Sun, solar wind, and interplanetary magnetic field. Solar wind interactions with the Earth' magnetic field. Bow shock processes, magnetospheric boundaries. Mapping of magnetospheric structures into polar regions. Inner magnetosphere. Active experiments (survey and applications). Diagnostic methods used in space. For postgraduate study only. Available in even years.
Course completion requirements - Czech
Last update: doc. RNDr. Jiří Pavlů, Ph.D. (14.06.2019)

Podmínkou zakončení předmětu je úspěšné složení zkoušky.

Literature - Czech
Last update: T_KEVF (13.05.2005)

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

J. K. Hargreaves: The solar-terrestrial environment, Cambridge Atmospheric and Space Science Series, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1992.

A. D. M. Walker, Plasma Wales in the magnetosphere, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1993.

R. J. Goldston, P. H. Rutherford: Introduction to plasma physics, Institute of Physics Publishing, Bristol and Philadelphia, 1995.

M. G. Kivelson, C. T. Russell: Introduction to space physics, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995.

T. E. Cravens: Physics of solar systém plasma, Cambridge Atmospheric and Space Science Series, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1997.

T. I. Gombosi: Physics of the space environment, Cambridge Atmospheric and Space Science Series, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998.

M.-B. Kallenrode: Space physics ? An introduction to plasma and particles in the heliosphere and magnetospheres, Springer, 2001.

J. A. Bittencourt: Fundamentals of plasma physics, Springer, 2004.

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: prof. RNDr. Jana Šafránková, DrSc. (13.10.2017)

Zkouška má pouze ústní část, skládá se ze dvou otázek odpovídajících sylabu předmětu v rozsahu, který byl prezentován na přednášce.

Syllabus -
Last update: T_KEVF (13.05.2005)
1. Fundamental processes in magnetized plasma
Introduction to physics of magnetized plasmas. Frozen-in magnetic field, diffusion of the magnetic field. Consequences and limits of MHD approximation, magnetic reconnection. Wave processes in plasmas, basic wave modes (Alfvén waves, magnetosonic waves), non-linear effects (shocks, solutions).

2. Sun and solar wind
Sun as a source of mass and energy in the space, energetic particles of solar and galactic origin. Solar wind (history and recent theories), interplanetary magnetic field (formation and propagation).

Significant instabilities in the solar wind, theory evolution and propagation, magnetic clouds, numerical simulations.

3. Solar wind interactions with Earth' magnetic field and bow shock processes
Shock wave in collisionless plasma, bow shock, interplanetary shock, acceleration of charged particles on the bow shock. Relationship of solar wind ? magnetospheric-ionosphere. Processes at the magnetopause and at the magnetosheath, plasma penetration to the magnetosphere (FTE, PTE, FAC, kasp). Motion of magnetospheric boundaries. Phenomenological magnetospheric model, fundamental processes.

4. Mapping of magnetospheric structures into polar regions and the inner magnetosphere
Ionosphere, plasmasphere, electric fields and magnetospheric convection, ring current, low-latitude boundary layer, plasma mantle, plasma sheet, plasma sheet boundary layer, magnetospheric lobes. Transport and acceleration of charged particles to auroral regions, polar oval (polar cusp). Birkeland currents. Magnetic field mapping. Geomagnetic indices. Space Weather (influence of geomagnetic field changes to life, the prediction possibility of geomagnetic events).

5. Active experiments and diagnostic methods
Active experiment classification, interaction of plasma and charged particle beams, potential of a body in space plasma and its compensation, critical ionization velocity. Diagnostic methods in the space and their limitations, calculations of plasma parameters from measurable quantities. Problems of multipoint observations.

 
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