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Zur Theorie der Bewegung geladener Teilchen in richtungskonstanten Magnetfeldern exponentieller Zeitabhängigkeit. I. Allgemeine Theorie und Einschaltvorgang
Author(s) -
Koch Eckhard
Publication year - 1967
Publication title -
beiträge aus der plasmaphysik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1521-3986
pISSN - 0005-8025
DOI - 10.1002/ctpp.19670070607
Subject(s) - physics , magnetic field , electric field , magnetosphere particle motion , constant (computer programming) , exponential function , field (mathematics) , magnetic moment , kinetic energy , superposition principle , charged particle , magnetic energy , classical mechanics , magnetization , quantum mechanics , mathematical analysis , mathematics , ion , computer science , pure mathematics , programming language
The general solution of the equations of motion for a charged particle in a magnetic field is given for the following case: the spatially homogeneous magnetic field having a constant direction is a superposition of a field constant in time and one decreasing exponentially in time; taken into account is the influence of the electric field induced by the time dependent magnetic field and a friction force proportional to the particle velocity. The higher transcendental functions appearing in the exact solution are approximated in various ways in dependence on the values of the argument and parameters. The important case of a switching process without a friction force is investigated in detail. The higher transcendential functions can be approximated by simplier functions in such a way, that the solutions for the switching process, valid for all times, differ from the solutions in the case of a linear increasing magnetic field only by factors consisting of elementary functions. Approximated formulae of a very simple form are obtained for position, velocity, kinetic energy and magnetic moment of the particle. The particle orbits are classified and their dependence on the initial values and parameters of the magnetic fields is studied. A comparison between our results and a rectangular variation of the field shows that the latter is not a good approximation for a really exponential increasing field. Finally a detailed investigation shows that the electric field induced by the time dependent magnetic field has an important influence on the particle motion.