Paper 4, Section I, B
A particle of mass and charge moves with trajectory in a constant magnetic field . Write down the Lorentz force on the particle and use Newton's Second Law to deduce that
where is a constant vector and is to be determined. Find and hence for the initial conditions
where and are constants. Sketch the particle's trajectory in the case .
[Unit vectors correspond to a set of Cartesian coordinates. ]
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