課程大綱(Course Outline)
英授(Taught in English)
Scope of space physics and its association with plasma physics
Concept of particle velocity distributions
Debye shielding and the concept of quasi-neutrality
Single-particle motions
Ring current
Mirror force; ion conics; loss cone
Trapped particles' motions in near-Earth space; adiabatic invariants
Earth's magnetic field
Drift patterns in the magnetosphere
Self-consistency of plasmas
Microscopic descriptions of plasmas
Macroscopic descriptions of plasmas: multi-fluid formulation
Waves and dispersion relations of cold plasma
Electrostatic waves
Properties associated with waves in general
Dispersion tensor of electromagnetic (EM) waves
Applications of fast EM waves in near-Earth space
Left- and right-handed polarized waves
Whistler mode of waves
Ion cyclotron/Alfvén mode of waves; ion cyclotron resonant heating
Doppler shift
Macroscopic description of plasmas: magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) formulation