Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Reading Assignment 7

Most difficult part of the material

I am not sure how the torque associated with the dipole moment works. I have studied torque in other systems, but it would be good to go through it more closely in class, possibly covering the basics of torque again to see how it applies to the one electron atom.

Most interesting part of the material

From the studies of plasma physics, I found it easier to understand section 8.2 and the magnetic dipole moment, due to the mention of the Larmour radius, which I also used in one of my lab experiments.

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