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Transverse MHD disturbance propagated along a magnetic field by magnetic tension and plasma inertia.
The ideal shear mode travels at the Alfvén speed in a simple uniform plasma. Compressibility, geometry and kinetic effects add other modes and corrections.
Also known as: magnetic-tension wave
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