What a great field to be in!
On a more positive note, try Family Stuff
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Spa 565 shows the class syllabus for spring 1998
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"In conclusion, those interested in understanding how pulsars shine are warned against taking seriously the sweeping clains made in this book for the success of the authors' own model. They would be better advised to turn to the observationally oriented book Pulsar Astronomy by A. G. Lyne and F. G. Smith (Cambridge, 1990), and to the very different theoretical biases but much more complete attention to the facts found in Theory of Pulsar Magnetospheres(sic) by F. Curtis Michel (Chicago, 1991)." Jonathan Arons University of California, Berkeley (Review of Physics of the Pulsar Magnetosphere by Beskin, Gurevich and Istomin, Physics Today October 1994, p. 71.)
Birkeland images from my book
Unfortunately these are hard to find. They are from pages 223, 254, and 257, respectively.Above, we get an equatoral belt of trapped electrons.
Now we even get concentric Saturn-like rings.
The man in person, in his lab, inspecting one of his runs. The next is just a summary of what it is like to teach science to non scientists.
