In reply to Eric Walker's message of Sat, 23 Mar 2013 18:01:48 -0700: Hi, [snip] >On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Eric Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > >What's to make this kind of precession not be a spherical one, e.g., such >> that the movement of the ellipsoid over time rather than being planar >> instead cancels out any magnetic moment? >> > >To attempt an answer to my own question, the precession might act like a >weathervane, where the wind (the magnetic field) begins to blow through it >-- the weathervane swivels and aligns itself with the oncoming wind. > Similarly, perhaps the precession would align with the magnetic field.
Indeed. Note that the entire ellipse also carries the charge of the electron, and hence two separate magnetic fields are created. This is why j is the vector sum of l & s. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
