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| INSTITUTET FÖR RYMDFYSIK | UPPSALA |
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| Swedish Institute of Space Physics | (59o50.272'N, 17o38.786'E) |
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Uppsala
University Department of Physics and Astronomy Division of Astronomy and Space Physics |
Welcome to the web page of the courses
Space
Physics (5 c)
Rymdfysik (5 hp)
and
Space Physics NV1
Rymdfysik NV1 (9 hp)
Space Physics NV1
Rymdfysik NV1 (9 hp)
News
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Page contents
- News
- General information
- Literature
- Hand-in problems
- Course matter -
notes,
problem sets, ...
- Old exams
- Old stuff
- Contact us
General information
Space Physics is offered as a 5-credit (hp) master course in physics at Uppsala University.
More information is available on the course page on the Student Portal.
Unless all students speak Swedish, the courses are usually taught in English.
This page is a source of auxilliary course information. Schedule changes etcetera are now advertised on the Student Portal.
Literature
The course book is Introduction to the space environment by Thomas F. Tascione, which you actually can live without by attending the lectures, and the compendium Lecture Notes on Space Physics from the Sun to the Aurora by Kjell Rönnmark, handed out at the lectures. There will also be problem sets and some other papers, some of which are available below.Hand-in problem (autumn 2011)
There is one optional hand-in exercise (inlämningsuppgift). If handed in in acceptable shape in due time, this can replace a solution to problem 5(a) on the final exam. The problem is given in English, but you may of course write the solution in either Swedish or English, as you prefer.Course
material
The following papers have been, or will be, handed out:
- Lecture plan (PDF, 7 kB,
revised 2010-09-05 for the autumn 2011 course)
- Formula sheet (PDF, 49 kB)
- Problem set, version 1.2 (PDF, 260 kB, 2004-01-18)
- Complementary lecture notes (PDF, 131 kB)
- The heliosphere in the kitchen sink -- a note on what shocks really are, pointing to the fact that you see examples of them daily
- Excerpts from Rönnmark's compendium are available as hardcopies only. The following are chapters are included and will be handed out during the course:
- Chapters 1-3
- Chapter 5
- Chapters 6 and 10
- Old exams you can find below
- Paper model of the terrestrial magnetosphere: http://www-spof.gsfc.nasa.gov/Education/wfold.html
- Lists of s/c launches:
Exams
Examination for Space Physics I is a written 5-hour exam. It is possible to get 30 points on the exam (see grade limits page). Note that the hand-in problems give up to 3 points extra, though only at the nominal exam date (ordinarie tentamen).Previous
exams (gamla tentor)
| Exam date | Problems | Solutions |
| 2010-10-18 |
PDF |
PDF |
| 2010-03-15 |
PDF |
PDF |
| 2009-03-18 |
PDF |
PDF |
| 2008-04-02 |
PDF |
PDF |
| 2007-06-11 |
PDF |
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| 2007-03-09 |
PDF |
PDF |
| 2006-08-15 |
PDF |
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| 2006-06-12 |
PDF |
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| 2006-03-10 |
PDF |
- |
| 2005-06-13 |
PDF |
- |
| 2005-03-11 |
PDF |
PDF
(handwritten) (note: error in 5b) |
| 2004-08-17 |
PDF |
- |
| 2004-06-11 |
PDF |
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| 2004-03-12 |
PDF |
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| 2003-04-24 |
PDF
(19 kB) |
PDF
(480 kB) |
| 2002-12-19 |
PDF (71 kB) |
PDF (303 kB) |
| 2002-08-14 | PDF (53 kB) | PDF
(63 kB)(nicely tex-ed for
problems 1, 2) PDF (106 kB) (ugly handwritten scribbles for problems 3, 4, 5 -- if you hand in anything as ugly as this, you will certainly fail!) |
| 2002-01-10 | PDF (70 kB) | PDF (75 kB)(to problems 3, 4, 5) |
| 2001-12-20 | PDF (156 kB) | - |
| 2001-11-21 (sample exam) |
PDF (120 kB) | - |
Old stuff
Some old
material, not relevant to the current course, is stowed away here.Contact
information
Lecturer: Anders.Eriksson@irfu.se, phone 018-471 5945, 0701-713029