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    Real Beads On Virtual Strings: Charged Particles On Magnetic Field Lines
    (2012-11) Breizman, Boris; Khudik, Vladimir; Breizman, Boris; Khudik, Vladimir
    We discuss a similarity between the drift of a charged particle inside a slowly moving solenoid and the motion of a fluid element in an ideal incompressible fluid. This similarity can serve as a useful instructional example to illustrate the concepts of magnetic field lines and magnetic confinement. (C) 2012 American Association of Physics Teachers. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.4746068]