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Plasma physics

The branch of physics concerned with matter in its plasma (gas) state in which a certain portion of the particles are ionized.

Contributors in Plasma physics

Plasma physics

San Marco D/L

Physics; Plasma physics

The San Marco D/L satellite was the fourth in a series of international cooperative projects between Italy's Centro Ricerche Aerospaziale and NASA. It was launched on 25 March, 1988 into an ...

radio waves

Physics; Plasma physics

Waves produced by oscillation of an electric charge at a frequency useful for radio communication. Used for radio frequency radiation.

Kp index

Physics; Plasma physics

A 3-hourly planetary geomagnetic index of activity generated in Gottingen, Germany, based on the K index from 12 or 13 stations distributed around the world.

drift motion

Physics; Plasma physics

Ordinarily particles placed in a magnetic field will simply orbit in circles, but if the magnetic field is not uniform, or curves, or there is an electrical field perpendicular to the magnetic field, ...

adiabatic

Physics; Plasma physics

Not involving an exchange of heat between the system said to be adiabatic and the rest of the universe.

kinetic theory

Physics; Plasma physics

The derivation of the bulk properties of fluids from the properties of fluids from the properties of their constituent molecules, their motions and interactions.

adiabatic invariant

Physics; Plasma physics

Characteristic parameters which do not change as a physical system slowly evolves; the most commonly used one in plasma physics is the magnetic moment of a charged particle spiraling around a ...

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