Basic Space Plasma Physics

The upgraded Large Plasma Device, a machine for studying frontier basic plasma physics.

In 1991 a manuscript describing an instrument for studying magnetized plasmas was published in this journal. The Large Plasma Device (LAPD) was upgraded in 2001 and has become a national user facility for the study of basic plasma physics. The upgrade as well as diagnostics introduced since then has significantly changed the capabilities of the device. All references to the machine still quote ...

Star formation : basic physics

Ground-Based Investigation of Near- Earth Space Plasma Processes in the NRL Space Physics Simulation Chamber

Introduction: The NRL Space Physics Simulation Chamber Laboratory conducts a broad-based research program addressing near-Earth space plasma physics. The unique Space Chamber device (shown in operation in Fig. 1) produces large-volume, steady-state, spacelike plasmas with conditions scaled to match various ionospheric and magnetospheric regions of interest. The program includes basic research i...

Chapter 2 . Basic Atomic Physics

A highly excited hydrogen atom in a strong magnetic field, the so-called "diamagnetic hydrogen atom," is among the simplest nonseparable systems in quantum mechanics. Understanding it can provide a key to the more general aspects of nonseparable systems. The problem is also attracting attention in the context of nonlinear dynamics because its classical behavior displays a transition from orderl...

Basic Mri Physics – “spin Gymnastics”

Introduction To understand MRI, it is first necessary to understand the physics of proton Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR). The most important site of this resonance relevant to MRI is the nucleus of the hydrogen atom in water. While other protons occur within biological molecules, water represents the most important site for MRI due to the concentration of protons in water and the dynamical pr...