文档介绍：Solar aspects of papers
PHYSICS 954
Solar Wind and Cosmic Rays
Spring Semester 2001
Instructor: Prof. Eberhard Möbius
Physics Department and
Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space
Office: Morse Hall, Room 407
Phone 862-3097
E-Mail Eberhard.******@
Office hours: Tu, We, Fr 1100 – 1200 am
Course Materials: Book: May-Britt Kallenrode, Space Physics, Springer Verlag, Berlin, New-York, 1998.
On Reserve in Physics Library:
Books according to bibliography
Folders with relevant papers
Folder with Lecture Notes (to be updated during course)
.edu/Physics954/
Grading: Based on:
A) Homework ≈ every 2 weeks (≈7) 20%
B) Class Participation includes discussion of one homework 10%
C) Presentation teaching of one class 15%
D) Term Paper about topic of class presentation 20%
E) Midterm Exam 15%
F) Final Exam 20%
Term Paper Draft due: Monday, April 9 (15%)
after conference Rev. due: Friday, May 11 (5%)
Midterm Exam: Friday, March 9
Syllabus
The solar wind provides a very versatile laboratory to study the physics of interacting plasmas and the transport and acceleration of particles in space. The acceleration of the hot corona to a super sonic wind and its interaction with the interstellar neighborhood is a basic example for the sur roundings of stars. Wherever the supersonic solar wind runs into obstacles the formation of shock waves