Assignments related to chapter 1 (Introduction to plasma physics) and 2 (charged particle orbits) of the course are now available on the course e-learning page.

One of the assignments of chapter 2 requires you to numerically integrate the orbit of a charged particle in a mirror machine. A simple orbit integrator has been uploaded to the Assignment section. The code is written in C++ and is easily compiled on a Linux machine. Instructions are in the README file. In order to solve this assignment, you must modify the fields.cpp file, where the relevant electric and magnetic fields are specified. The code must be recompiled for changes to be effective.