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lodovico
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Homework Statement
Today, my teacher gave us some practice AP multiple choice and my friend and I were debating between answer choices H and J (changed from A and B to remove any confusion) the question as i remember it:
blah blah... B-field into the page, constant velocity v, radius R and charge q. which graph shows the relationship between B-field and radius.. something with radius getting smaller as B-field gets larger
Choice H: this is a straight line coming from +y crossing the +x axis (basically a straight negative slope)
Choice J: the (1/x) graph with x>0
Homework Equations
Fc = mv^2/r
Fb= qvB
The Attempt at a Solution
Fc=Fb
[itex]\frac{mv^2}{r}[/itex]=qvB
[itex]\frac{mv}{r}[/itex]=qB
since mv and q are constants, is it ok to treat them as 1? that is what i did so...
[itex]\frac{1}{r}[/itex]=B
[itex]\frac{1}{B}[/itex]=r
since on the graphs r was the y-axis and B was the x-axis
i chose the (1/x) shaped graph