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- Presents the first comprehensive book on collisionless shocks since the 1980s
- Offers a unique and excellently illustrated course on shock wave physics and applications
- Provides an in-depth look at shocks and serves as an almost complete reference for space scientists and astrophysicists
Part of the book series: ISSI Scientific Report Series (ISSI)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Applications: Two Kinds of Collisionless Shocks in the Heliosphere
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
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, The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, Berkhamsted, United Kingdom
André Balogh
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International Space Science Institute, Bern, Switzerland
Rudolf A. Treumann
About the authors
Rudolf Treumann is retired faculty from the Department of Geophysics and Environmental Sciences, Ludwig‐Maximilians‐University Munich. Munich, Germany. He has published widely on plasma physics and astrophysical topics. He is an author of a two‐volume textbook on space plasma physics and coeditor of several books on fundamental physics and astrophysics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Physics of Collisionless Shocks
Book Subtitle: Space Plasma Shock Waves
Authors: André Balogh, Rudolf A. Treumann
Series Title: ISSI Scientific Report Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6099-2
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-6098-5Published: 03 January 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-9064-8Published: 23 June 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-6099-2Published: 04 January 2013
Series ISSN: 2946-1278
Series E-ISSN: 2946-1286
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 500
Topics: Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics), Astrophysics and Astroparticles, Plasma Physics