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Paper 4, Section I, 3C3 C3C

Dynamics and Relativity | Part IA, 2014

A particle of mass mmm has charge qqq and moves in a constant magnetic field B. Show that the particle's path describes a helix. In which direction is the axis of the helix, and what is the particle's rotational angular frequency about that axis?

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