• Bratati Choudhury

Quadrupole Potential in a plane forms a kind of saddle potential for the charged particle in that plane. The potential in that plane is a hyperbolic function; increases in one dimension and decreases in the other. As a result, the electric field is inward in one dimension and outward in the other. The particle’s motion in such a field configuration cannot have a stable equilibrium. It is seen that the quadrupole potential can be rotated in transverse plane and the particle’s motion can be stabilized over time, for sufficiently larger frequencies of rotation [1, 2]. The transverse motion of a charged particle in such rotating quadrupole potential exhibits micro-circular motion and a prograde precision in larger scale. The motion of the guiding centre of the trajectory can be represented with an equation similar to that of a Foucault’s pendulum.

Rotating Quadrupole Potential, Brouwer’s Equation, Foucault Pendulum, Charged Particle Dynamics

"A Foucault Pendulum Representation Of Charged Particle’s Motion In Rotating Quadrupole Potential", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no.655-657, December 2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1812C96.pdf

"A Foucault Pendulum Representation Of Charged Particle’s Motion In Rotating Quadrupole Potential", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no. pp655-657, December 2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1812C96.pdf