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Concluding remarks

Hopefully, in the next few years, as you make your paths in the outer world as newly-fledged Honours graduates you will find that the physics and topics covered in this course remain interesting and perhaps useful to you. You have learnt about solar physics, the interplanetary medium, Earth's magnetosphere and ionosphere, space weather effects, and the outer heliosphere. This has required you learning about MHD and fluid physics, kinetic physics, shock waves, single particle motions, acceleration and heating processes, plasma waves and radiation, and wave-particle interactions. This knowledge and set of skills should be useful in fields ranging from plasma physics to atmospheric physics to space physics and astrophysics.

On behalf of the other lecturers and myself, let me say that we have enjoyed teaching you and that we hope that you have enjoyed yourselves and learnt useful things. Please feel free to talk with us on any aspect of the course, both before and after the final exam.



Iver Cairns
Wed Oct 20 15:39:59 EST 1999