Charged particles emitted by the sun travel to Earth and interact with Earth's magnetic field. Such particles often end up circulating around the geomagnetic field lines and colliding with air molecules near the poles. The collisions create the wonderful light shows known as the Auroras. Earth's magnetic field in low polar orbit is about 0.55 Gauss. The mass of an electron is 9.109*10-31kg and the mass of a proton is 1.673*10-27kg. a) If an electron with a velocity of 198 m/s perpendicular to the geomagnetic field what force does it experience. b) As the geomagnetic field operates on the electron it causes the electron to circulate around the field. Find the radius of the circular trajectory. c) If a proton with the same velocity ente
Charged particles emitted by the sun travel to Earth and interact with Earth's magnetic field. Such particles often end up circulating around the geomagnetic field lines and colliding with air molecules near the poles. The collisions create the wonderful light shows known as the Auroras. Earth's magnetic field in low polar orbit is about 0.55 Gauss. The mass of an electron is 9.109*10-31kg and the mass of a proton is 1.673*10-27kg.
a) If an electron with a velocity of 198 m/s perpendicular to the geomagnetic field what force does it experience.
b) As the geomagnetic field operates on the electron it causes the electron to circulate around the field. Find the radius of the circular trajectory.
c) If a proton with the same velocity enters the same field how does the radius change?
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