Question

These devices share their name with the Smale-Williams strange attractor, which is formed by an iterated map on the solid torus. In fluidic control systems, these devices name and toggle a type of valve that can be either “normally open” or “normally closed.” The vector potential of one of these devices only has a theta component. These devices name the rotational component of a Helmholtz decomposition, (15[1])which is a vector field with zero (*) divergence. A toroid is a circular one of these devices used to confine plasmas in tokamaks. (-5[1])Ampere’s law can be used to show that the magnetic field in one of these devices is “mu-naught I N,” (10[1])where N is the number of turns per unit length. For 10 points, name these coils of wire commonly used as inductors. ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: solenoids [prompt on inductors until read; prompt on coils or helices of wire until read; accept Smale-Williams solenoid attractor; accept solenoid valve; accept solenoidal vector field]
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