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Oh. Could you guys please suggest any informative sources about IEC?

In that case, it doesn't even qualify to be a confinement method, I suppose.

Earnshaw's theorem states that a charged particle cannot be held in stable equilibrium by pure electrostatic forces alone. If you have a cube of positive charges you cannot place a positive charge at the center in stable equilibrium. As far as I can see, my only confusion is that, Griffiths...

Hi all, I recently read about a Fusor, on wikipedia and to my surprise there has been lots of research going on Inertial Electrostatic Confinement. I actually have a query, I quote from D.J.Griffiths, Electrodynamics Third Edition, pp 115 "Earnshaw's theorem says that electrostatic...

OMG, so all this time, was I simply describing the BEC? Anyway, one more doubt, does the probability rule hold only at 0 K?

Thank you all very much for replying. Let me make my question more specific There are N bosons in a box which are at a sufficiently low temperature so that the entire box exists at a specific constant energy. According to statistical mechanics, for such a distribution of bosons, it will...

Could you explain why the states are not equiprobable? Also, is there any interaction between the bosons which we are missing out here?

Hi guys, Let us consider this thought experiment of having say Avogadro number of bosons in a box. According to statistical mechanics, it is equally probable to find every distribution of bosons in the box. But, say we wait really long enough to find that at one point of time, we find all the...

Hey guys, I have seen many posts on the same topic but I was unable to come to a coherent conclusion. I have seen people referring to Arfken or Mary Boas. I have sufficient knowledge in linear algebra, statistics and calculus in many variables. I am presently taking a course in complex analysis...

I'm not much of a specialist, but I think the fact can be deduced easily while one works through the derivation of carnot efficiency. Here is the link from wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnot_cycle#Properties_and_significance

Thank you very much, sankalpmittal. Best Wishes and Regards, Boltzmann

Hey sankalpmittal, I was actually reading Griffiths in which he states that electric confinement is not possible since a stable eq condition cannot be achieved by a space distribution of charges. According to alfven's theorem, the magnetic flux gets 'frozen' within the plasma/liquid and hence...

Hi, I was reading about Earnshaw's theorem and how it explains the non availability of electrostatic confinement of plasma, but does Alfven's theorem really prove the fact that magnetic confinement of hot plasma is achievable? Regards, Boltzmann

Ah, Thank you for reminding. Ludwig Boltzmann

Thank you for the reply. It was most useful. Regards L.Boltzmann