Space Physics II
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The course is a continuation of Space Physics I, and aims to give the student a more quantitative knowledge of space plasma phenomena and research methods.
Course goals
The goals of the course are that the student should be able to:
- describe and explain basic processes in space plasma physics
- use established theories to estimate quantitatively the behaviour of some of these processes
- make simple analyses of various types of space physics data to compare with the quantitative theoretical predictions
- describe some hot topics of today’s space physics research
Syllabus
The material covered includes:
- shocks and boundaries in space
- solar wind interaction with magnetized and unmagnetized bodies
- reconnection
- sources of magnetospheric plasma
- magnetospheric and ionospheric convection
- auroral physics
- storms and substorms
- global oscillations of the magnetosphere
