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Characterizing Space Plasmas

A Data Driven Approach

By: George K. Parks

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Characterizing Space Plasmas

A Data Driven Approach

By: George K. Parks

This didactic book uses a data-driven approach to connect measurements made by plasma instruments to the real world. This approach makes full use of the instruments’ capability and examines the data at the most detailed level an experiment can provide. Students using this approach will learn what instruments can measure, and working with real-world data will pave their way to models consistent with these observations. While conceived as a teaching tool, the book contains a considerable amount of new information. It emphasizes recent results, such as particle measurements made from the Cluster ion experiment, explores the consequences of new discoveries, and evaluates new trends or techniques in the field. At the same time, the author ensures that the physical concepts used to interpret the data are general and widely applicable. The topics included help readers understand basic problems fundamental to space plasma physics. Some are appearing for the first time in a space physics textbook. Others present different perspectives and interpretations of old problems and models that were previously considered incontestable. This book is essential reading for graduate students in space plasma physics, and a useful reference for the broader astrophysics community.

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3319900412

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Physics Of Space Plasmas

An Introduction

By: George K Parks

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Physics Of Space Plasmas

An Introduction

By: George K Parks

This textbook was developed to provide seniors and first-year graduate students in physical sciences with a general knowledge of electrodynamic phenomena in space. Since the launch of the first unmanned satellite in 1957, experiments have been performed to study the behavior of electromagnetic fields and charged particles. There is now a considerable amount of data on hand, and many articles, including excellent review articles, have been written for the specialists. However, for students, new researchers, and non-specialists, a need still exists for a book that integrates these observations in a coherent way. This book is an attempt to meet that need by using the theory of classical electrodynamics to unify space observations. The contents of this book are based on classroom notes developed for an introductory space physics course that the author has taught for many years at the University of Washington. Students taking the course normally have had an undergraduate course in electricity and magnetism but they come with very little knowledge about space.

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CRC Press

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1000303470

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9781000303476

Characterizing Space Plasmas

A Data Driven Approach

By: George K. Parks

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A Data Driven Approach

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Oracles, Heroes or Villains

Economic Policymakers, National Politicians and the Power to Shape Markets

By: George E. Shambaugh

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Oracles, Heroes or Villains

Economic Policymakers, National Politicians and the Power to Shape Markets

By: George E. Shambaugh

IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde declared central bankers and finance ministers to be the heroes of recent economic crises for taking corrective action while national politicians squabbled. What enabled them to do so? In the wake of Brexit, chaotic trade policies in the United States, and resurgent nationalism around the world, national politicians are quarrelling again, meanwhile the markets are roiling. Can we again depend on economic technocrats to save the day for these national politicians and the rest of us? What happens if they fail or, perhaps worse, go too far? In this timely book, Shambaugh answers these questions using recent economic crises in Argentina, the United States and Europe as case studies for analysing the intersections of power, politics and markets. By specifying the interactions between political uncertainty, market intervention, and investor risk, Shambaugh predicts how economic technocrats manage market behaviour by shifting expectations regarding what national politicians will do and whether their policies will be effective.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108640648

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9781108640640

Battling for the National Parks

By: George B. Hartzog, Jr.

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Battling for the National Parks

By: George B. Hartzog, Jr.

The story of Hartzog's struggle to save and improve the American National Park system.

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0918825954

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Characterizing Space Plasmas

Characterizing Space Plasmas

Physics Of Space Plasmas

Physics Of Space Plasmas

Characterizing Space Plasmas

Characterizing Space Plasmas

Oracles, Heroes or Villains

Oracles, Heroes or Villains

Battling for the National Parks

Battling for the National Parks

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