Consider a plasma in the form of a straight circular cylinder with a helical magnetic field given

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Consider a plasma in the form of a straight circular cylinder with a helical magnetic field given by

Show that the force per unit volume, associated with the inward magnetic pressure for this configuration, is

and the force per unit volume, associated with the magnetic tension due to the curvature of the magnetic field lines, is

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