Energy variations and electric fields in a collisionless plasma

Details Energy variations and electric fields in a collisionless plasma Energy variations and electric fields in a collisionless plasma

Mar 1984

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Astrophysics and Space Science (ISSN 0004-640X), vol. 100, no. 1-2, March 1984, p. 149-158.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Collisionless Plasmas, Earth Magnetosphere, Electric Fields, Space Plasmas, Current Density, Energy Conversion, Energy Transfer, Internal Energy, Kinetic Energy

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The author analyses the meaning of various contributions to the mechanical energy of a mass element of an ion-electron continuum. To do so he extends the formalism of the theory of continuum to a collisionless plasma. Various concepts and definitions of quantities (e.g. adiabatic process, resistivity) which have been formulated in the past for descriptions of continua other than plasmas are still used in plasma physics and space physics. The author notes that their actual meaning is in fact somewhat different from that frequently attributed to them. Using the formalism of the classical theory of continuum, he hopes to clarify the nature of certain special problems of energization of the magnetospheric particles.

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