The Minute Paper for Chapter 2 (Due September 24th in class)
Answer each question in 1 or 2 sentences:
(1) What was the most useful or meaningful
thing you learned from this Chapter?
(2) What
question(s) remain upper-most in your mind as we end this Chapter?
(3) What
was least clear to you?
HW for Chapter 2 (Due September 24th in class)
(1) ExB
drift is driven by what force?
Does this drift produce current?
Explain the physics of these questions.
(2) The Grad-B
drift is driven by what force?
What is the current produced by
this drift?
Explain the physics of these questions.
(3) The curvature
drift is driven by what force?
The Polarization drift is
driven by what force?
What is the current produced by
each of these two drift?
(4) Identify
all the assumptions used to prove that the magnetic moment is
an adiabatic invariant.
What scale length should be
used to determine whether a given magnetic field is slowly varying?
Why?