Magnetohydrodynamics and the Earth's Core
Subtitle: Selected Works by Paul Roberts (Fluid Mechanics of Astrophysics and Geophysics, V. 10)
Publisher: CRC
Published: November 28, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780415272223
Subjects: PHYSICS; Structure & properties of the Earth; Science; Science/Mathematics; Astrophysics & Space Science; Environmental Science; Magnetism; Science / Earth Sciences; Earth Sciences - General; Geophysics; Reference; Core; Earth; Magnetohydrodynamics
First sentence: The first applications of electrodynamics to astrophysical problems ignored the fluid nature of cosmical matter and simply carried over the notions of electromagnetic theory as applied to rigid conductors which were the result of rather extensive developments by electrical engineers.