Week 1: The sun and interplanetary space: The sun as a star, solar atmosphere, solar electromagnetic radiations, variance in the solar spectra, solar wind
Week 2: solar and interplanetary magnetic field, solar cycle variations, cosmic rays in the interplanetary space, interaction of solar wind and other planets
Week 3: The Physics of Geospace: Properties of gases, Magnetoplasma, Gyrofrequency, plasma frequency, waves, radio wave propagation in ionized medium, waves propagation in plasma, Langmuir wave, ion-acoustic wave, electromagnetic wave in unmagnetized plasma, plasma instabilities
Week 4: Definition of a fluid, quick review of kinetic theory, equations of ideal hydrodynamics
Week 5: Plasma as a fluid, Idea of total derivative, Lagrangian and Eulerian formulation, Derivation of Governing Equations, Equation of continuity, Invariance of continuity equation
Week 6: Momentum equation, Ohm’s law and Energy equation, brief introduction to MHD, ideal induction equation,
Week 7: Alfven’s theorem, MHD Poynting power density, Equations of ideal MHD, vector potential and magnetic helicity, MHD waves
Week 8: Dynamo action: Equations of motion of terrestrial atmosphere, the atmospheric circulation, heating of upper atmosphere, tidal oscillations of the atmosphere, the lunar tide
Week 9: the solar tides, tides at the ionospheric level, motion of charged particles, conductivities, Layer conductivity
Week 10: Ionosphere: Physical aeronomy, chemical aeronomy, formation of D, E, F1 and F2 regions in low and mid latitudes, Ionospheric electric currents,
Week 11: F-region drifts, ion drag effects, storms, geomagnetic indices, irregularities in ionosphere, travelling ionospheric disturbances
Week 12: Whistlers: Whistlers and VLF emissions, Emission theories, dispersion relation for whistler mode wave, growth rate calculation, nonlinear effects, quasilinear theory, diffusion into loss cone.
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