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Department of Physics - Plasma Physics | WVU Plasma Physics | Protecting our National Security and Communication Infrastructure By Understanding Space Weather
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Eberly College of Arts and Sciences. Protecting our National Security and Communication Infrastructure By Understanding Space Weather. November 12th, 2011. By Dr Amy Keesee, WVU. Plasma Physics Research Assistant Professor. In today’s society we rely on the power grid to heat our homes, to run our computers and phones, for financial transactions, and for traffic control. We also rely upon satellites for communication by cellular phones, television and radio broadcasts, airplane and automobile n...Predict...
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Eberly College of Arts and Sciences. Archives for June 2013. Mdash; June 12th. Click Here to Learn More About WVU. How Scientists Model the Magnetosphere. Hall Thrusters, an Electron's Perspective. Don't Worry, It's Just a Little Nuclear Energy. Predicting the Weather - in Space! Explosive Events on the Sun. How hot is that plasma in the window? How do we remote sense plasmas? 2016 West Virginia University Last Modified: April 03, 2012 Site design by WVU Web Services.
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Department of Physics - Plasma Physics | WVU Plasma Physics | How Scientists Model the Magnetosphere
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Eberly College of Arts and Sciences. How Scientists Model the Magnetosphere. May 2nd, 2013. By Bruce Tepke, WVU. Plasma Physics graduate student. Kristian Birkeland operating his terrella experiment. Source: http:/ www.astro.umontreal.ca/ paulchar/grps/histoire/newsite/sp/great moments e.html. Terrella experiment demonstrating Aurora. Source: http:/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Aurora borealis in a lab dsc04517.jpg. Magnetohydrodynamics and computer simulation. Digital simulation – an analogy. The Ogino co...
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Eberly College of Arts and Sciences. Archives for January 2013. Predicting the Weather - in Space! Mdash; January 15th. Click Here to Learn More About WVU. How Scientists Model the Magnetosphere. Hall Thrusters, an Electron's Perspective. Don't Worry, It's Just a Little Nuclear Energy. Predicting the Weather - in Space! Explosive Events on the Sun. How hot is that plasma in the window? How do we remote sense plasmas? Blog Guidelines and Comment Guidelines.
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Department of Physics - Plasma Physics | WVU Plasma Physics | Hall Thrusters, an Electron's Perspective
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Eberly College of Arts and Sciences. Hall Thrusters, an Electron's Perspective. March 12th, 2013. By Dustin McCarren, WVU. Plasma Physics graduate student. Hall thrusters are a type of plasma propulsion device that may be the key to unlocking the cosmos. Hall thrusters accelerate ions, positively charged particles, with an electric field to generate thrust. To better understand how this process transpires we have to take a closer look. Well, maybe a much closer look. The ion, propelled by the collective ...
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Department of Physics - Plasma Physics | WVU Plasma Physics | How do we remote sense plasmas? Magnetic Fields
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Eberly College of Arts and Sciences. How do we remote sense plasmas? June 14th, 2012. By Dr Dimitris Vassiliadis, WVU. Plasma Physics Research Professor. Magnetic fields are routinely measured for a number of cosmic plasmas. The nearest such plasmas are those surrounding our planet: its ionosphere and magnetosphere, the top two layers of Earth’s upper atmosphere. We can measure their fields by flying spacecraft through them (in situ) or by using sensitive instruments here on the ground. Using entire arra...
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Department of Physics - Plasma Physics | WVU Plasma Physics | Plasma self-organization
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Eberly College of Arts and Sciences. September 24th, 2012. By Dr Rich Magee, WVU. Plasma Physics postdoctoral researcher. Ion heating ( Earl’s post. And solar storms that can affect Earth (posts by Amy. Figure 1 The regularity of the solar cycle can be seen in the size and latitude of sunspots as a function of time. (Taken from reference 1.). On February 4th, 1982 scientists at the ASDEX. Solar physics webpage: http:/ solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/. 3 Y Ma, et. al. Nuclear Fusion 52 (2012) 0230101. Comments...
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Department of Physics - Plasma Physics | WVU Plasma Physics | Unlocking the energy of the heavens
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Eberly College of Arts and Sciences. Unlocking the energy of the heavens. April 10th, 2012. By Matt Galante, WVU. Plasma Physics graduate student. The second method utilizes strong magnetic fields to contain charged particles which are heated, typically using radiowaves or beams of neutral particles, until they reach a sufficient temperature and fuse together, releasing energy. This is known as magnetic confinement fusion. Neutral particles play a key role in fusion as they provide the fuel that feeds th...
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