Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of symbols
- Useful constants
- Geophysical quantities
- Energy equivalents
- 1 The Earth's radiation belts
- 2 Charged particle motion in magnetic and electric fields
- 3 The geomagnetic field
- 4 Adiabatic invariants
- 5 Particle fluxes, distribution functions and radiation belt measurements
- 6 Particle diffusion and transport
- 7 Diffusion in pitch angle
- 8 Diffusion in the L coordinate or radial diffusion
- 9 Summary and comments
- Appendix A Summary of frequently used formulas
- Appendix B Gyration, bounce and drift frequencies in a dipole field
- References
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of symbols
- Useful constants
- Geophysical quantities
- Energy equivalents
- 1 The Earth's radiation belts
- 2 Charged particle motion in magnetic and electric fields
- 3 The geomagnetic field
- 4 Adiabatic invariants
- 5 Particle fluxes, distribution functions and radiation belt measurements
- 6 Particle diffusion and transport
- 7 Diffusion in pitch angle
- 8 Diffusion in the L coordinate or radial diffusion
- 9 Summary and comments
- Appendix A Summary of frequently used formulas
- Appendix B Gyration, bounce and drift frequencies in a dipole field
- References
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Introduction to Geomagnetically Trapped Radiation , pp. xiii - xviPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1994