Abstract
As we have seen in Chapter II, it is advantageous to translate the traditional field description of plasma phenomena in space into a current description. This gives a deeper understanding of those phenomena in the following respects:
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The circuit representation demonstrates the importance of boundary conditions which have often been forgotten.
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By studying the electromotive forces driving the current and the regions of dissipation, the energy transfer from one region to another is more easily understood.
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Certain types of important current-produced phenomena, including the formation of double layers, are difficult to understand without accounting for the current explicitly.
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Alfvén, H. (1981). Circuits. In: Cosmic Plasma. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 82. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8374-8_3
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