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Introduction
Motion in uniform fields
Method of averaging
Guiding centre motion
Magnetic drifts
Invariance of the magnetic moment
Poincaré invariants
Adiabatic invariants
Magnetic mirrors
The Van Allen radiation belts
The ring current
The second adiabatic invariant
The third adiabatic invariant
Motion in oscillating fields
Richard Fitzpatrick 2006-02-16