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Theory of Space Plasma - NTMF028

Title:	Teorie kosmického plazmatu
Guaranteed by:	Institute of Theoretical Physics (32-UTF)
Faculty:	Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual:	from 2024
Semester:	summer
E-Credits:	3
Hours per week, examination:	summer 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
Additional information:	http://utf.mff.cuni.cz/vyuka/NTMF028

Guarantor:	RNDr. Jiří Horák, Ph.D. Anabella Teresa Araudo, Dr.
Teacher(s):	Anabella Teresa Araudo, Dr. RNDr. Jiří Horák, Ph.D.
Classification:	Physics > Theoretical and Math. Physics

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Annotation -

Basic concepts and processes of classical and relativistic plasma astrophysics, their description and numerical modeling. Designed for 1st and 2nd year students of the master's degree and doctoral students in the field of theoretical physics, astronomy and astrophysics.

Last update: Houfek Karel, doc. RNDr., Ph.D. (13.05.2022)

Course completion requirements - Czech

Ústní zkouška

Last update: Houfek Karel, doc. RNDr., Ph.D. (11.06.2019)

Literature -

Chen F. F., Úvod do fyziky plazmatu (Academia, Praha 1984)

Last update: Podolský Jiří, prof. RNDr., CSc., DSc. (29.04.2019)

Requirements to the exam - Czech

Zkouška je ústní, požadavky odpovídají sylabu, v detailech pak tomu, co bylo během semestru odpřednášeno.

Last update: Houfek Karel, doc. RNDr., Ph.D. (11.06.2019)

Syllabus -

Radiation (magneto)hydrodynamics:
kinetic formulation of radiation transfer, radiation pressure, stellar winds and accretion, shock waves, equations of state in astrophysics.

Plasma astrophysics:
magnetic structures in the stellar atmospheres, magnetic reconnection, plasma mechanism of radiation, beams and beam instability, the plasma particle modeling, examples of application: solar flares and solar radioastronomy.

General-relativistic kinetic theory:
geometry of phase space, mass shell, Liouville theorem, general-relativistic (magneto-) hydrodynamics.

Last update: T_UTF (15.05.2013)