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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 2023
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
Teaching methods:	full-time
Additional information:	http://utf.mff.cuni.cz/vyuka/NTMF028

Guarantor:	doc. RNDr. Petr Hadrava, DrSc. RNDr. Jiří Horák, Ph.D.
Classification:	Physics > Theoretical and Math. Physics

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

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.

Course completion requirements - Czech

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

Ústní zkouška

Literature -

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

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

Requirements to the exam - Czech

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

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

Syllabus -

Last update: T_UTF (15.05.2013)

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.