ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION FROM AN OSCILLATING, COLLISION-FREE MAGNETO-IONIC MEDIUM.

Abstract

A collision free or low collision magneto-io1ic medium is easily perturbed by a driving or pumping wave, even of moderate power. Unless the pump wave is of the longitudinal mode it will generate longitudinal electron velocities as well as differential space charge densities. These quantities, as well as the transverse, pump field electron velocities, will affect the propagation of any (low power) signal or probing wave propagating through the medium, which now has oscillating and travelling electron velocity and electron density ripples.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 20, 1964
Accession Number
AD0606700

Entities

People

  • O. E. H. Rydbeck

Organizations

  • Pennsylvania State University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Charge Density
  • Charged Particles
  • Collisions
  • Electromagnetic Wave Reflections
  • Electron Density
  • Electrons
  • Elementary Fermions
  • Elementary Particles
  • Fermions
  • Leptons
  • Reflection
  • Space Charge
  • Subatomic Particles
  • Transverse

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Plasma Physics / Magnetohydrodynamics

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Space
  • Space - Hall-Effect Thruster