Figure 2 (IMAGE)

Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

Figure 2

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Schematic representation of a plasma jet. You can picture the magnetic field lines as strands of wire sticking out of a disk, and charged particles as beads on them. Spinning the disk will cause the beads to accelerate and move away from it.

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Elena Nokhrina and Daria Sokol/MIPT

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