Recent content by sbuckstein

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yungman, that is very interesting, but not relevant. I am clearly talking about a situation that DOES use magnetism. GRDixon, thanks for your help. So let me get this straight, since v and B are orthogonal, the cross product is 90 degrees to both of them, giving rise to the circular motion...

Yeah I figured there would be some sort of energy loss but this is a simple problem that assumes no losses anywhere. Thank you very much. Although I don't quite understand, if it is experiencing a force, it will experience acceleration, therefore increased velocity. Increased velocity should...

I understand that in a mass spectrometer, a particle will first pass through an accelerometer to pick up speed (presumably starting from rest). Let's say you have an electron starting from rest being passed through a difference of 1000V, it should have a kinetic energy of 1000eV right before...