Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-theoretical-physics-i-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2015/paper-1/2/d/solution

The initial angular velocity cancels the flux term in the canonical angular momentum:
Define and . The radial equation becomes , so
These identify the paper's with . For nonzero radius, also fixes
A radius is nonnegative. The formal sinusoidal solution remains strictly positive for a full cycle only if , or . At equality it touches zero; at stronger magnetic coupling it first reaches zero and its negative continuation is not a physical ring radius. No collision or re-expansion rule at collapse is supplied, so the circular-ring solution is then valid only up to the first zero. This domain qualification leaves the requested differential-equation solution intact.

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