Motion of a Charged Particle in an Electromagnetic Field
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This Demonstration shows the motion of a charged particle in an electromagnetic field consisting of a constant electric field with components along the and axes and a constant magnetic field along the axis. The Lorentz force causes the particle to move in a helical orbit. Given the initial conditions, you can explicitly determine the equations of motion.
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Contributed by: Joseph Cruz (December 2020)
Additional contributions by: Jose Ramirez
(Developed in the physics laboratory of the EPN)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA
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