Timeline for Description of Van Allen's Belt and Magnetic Mirrors
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| Oct 13, 2021 at 14:39 | comment | added | honeste_vivere | Gurnett and Bhattacharjee's "Introduction to Plasma Physics" is much better, I find. | |
| Oct 13, 2021 at 14:34 | comment | added | Johann Wagner | With regard to the explanation, I would humbly say that I agree with your statement. Would you have any other introductory book of "Plasma Physics" to recommend me? | |
| Oct 13, 2021 at 14:30 | comment | added | honeste_vivere | I generally avoid Chen's book if at all possible because it has lots of errors/mistakes and some really bad explanations of physical processes. This is just my personal preference but I do not like his book. Regardless, it is often the case that one assumes a particle is in the center of a magnetic mirror and the bounce motion is implicitly assumed for the sake of illustrating the mirror effect (as I'm guessing Chen does). | |
| Oct 13, 2021 at 14:18 | comment | added | Johann Wagner | Very nice, I'll look into it. One thing that made me curious, though, is that in Chen's "Introduction to Plasma Physics", he explain the magnetic mirrors without actually discussing the bounce motion. He develops the gyration and the grad-B drift, and gets the invariance of the magnetic moment. Is that because he does not give a particular detailed look to the Van Allen's belts? | |
| Oct 12, 2021 at 15:53 | history | answered | honeste_vivere | CC BY-SA 4.0 |