Overview
Provides a simple way of understanding how magnetic fields change with time
Includes online animations of magnetic field lines
Uniquely explains electromagnetic radiation generation, where an “electron scattering” analogue falls out naturally from the solution of Maxwell’s equations
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Numerical simulations are an invaluable source of information about this and related subjects, but they are often more difficult to interpret than exact, closed-form solutions that can easily be applied to a variety of situations. Thus, the objective here is to obtain an exact solution of Maxwell’s equations in closed form—something simple, yet rigorous, which can be used as a model for understanding transient magnetic fields in more complicated situations. The work therefore stands as a self-contained solution of Maxwell’s equations for an electric current wrapped around the surface of a sphere.
This study assumes a strong background in electromagnetism or a related research area. Online animations are available for each figure to better illustrate the motions of magnetic field lines.
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About the author
In 1977, Dr. Sheeley moved to NRL in Washington DC, where he continued the Skylab data analysis and then began a long series of studies of the corona using observations with the Solwind white-light coronagraph on the P78-1 spacecraft (1979-1985), the LASCO coronagraph on SOHO (1995-), and the Secchi coronagraphs on the STEREO spacecraft (2006-). Also beginning in 1981, he used a flux-transport code developed by his NRL colleagues Dr. Jay Boris and Dr. C.R. DeVore to study the evolution of the Sun’s surface field. In 1986, he began a long-term collaboration with his NRL colleague, Dr. Yi-Ming Wang, who extended the flux-transport code into the corona. This work led to the Wang-Sheeley-Arge-enlil (WSA-enlil) solar wind and coronal mass ejection forecasting model, now on the National Weather Service website.
In 2005, Dr. Sheeley received NRL’s E.O. Hulburt Award, and in 2009, he received the George Ellery Hale Prize of the Solar Physics Division of the American Astronomical Society. Dr. Sheeley retired from NRL in November 2016 and has been continuing his magnetic field studies in his retirement. He currently holds a Visiting Research Scientist appointment at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory of the University of Arizona (LPL/ UA).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Transient Magnetic Fields
Authors: Neil R. Sheeley
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40264-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-40263-1Published: 24 March 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-40266-2Published: 24 March 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-40264-8Published: 23 March 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 231
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 67 illustrations in colour
Topics: Classical Electrodynamics, Solar and Heliospheric Physics, Astrophysics and Astroparticles