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Magnetic Waves

By neglecting gravity, but now including magnetism, a plasma at rest with constant density, ρ0, and uniform magnetic field, B0, undergoes a small perturbation (subscripts 1) resulting in a plasma flow such that
B = B0 + B1
ρ = ρ0 + ρ1
v = v1
Differentiating Eqn. 23 with respect to time, and substituting linearised forms of Eqns. 11 (with a large $R_m$), 17 & 21 leads to a second generalised wave equation,
(48)

Assuming a plane wave solution, as for Eqn. 39, leads to,
(49)



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James McAteer 2004-01-14