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This question is about the velocity selector shown in figure.

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Explain why ions travelling with a speed greater than your answer to part (b) will not emerge from the slit.

Important Questions on Motion of Charged Particles

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A Hall probe is designed to operate with a steady current of 0.020 A in a semiconductor slice of thickness 0.05 mm. The number density of charge carriers (electrons) in the semiconductor is 1.5×1023m-3.

(a) Calculate the Hall voltage that will result when the probe is placed at right angles to a magnetic field of flux density 0.10 T. (Elementary chargee=1.60×10-19C.)

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A Hall probe is designed to operate with a steady current of 0.020 A in a semiconductor slice of thickness 0.05 mm. The number density of charge carriers (electrons) in the semiconductor is 1.5×1023m-3.

(b) Explain why the current in the Hall probe must be maintained at a constant value.

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Suggest how the Hall effect could be used to determine the number density of charge carriers n in a semiconducting material.
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The charge-to-mass ratioeme for the electron is 1.76×1011C kg-1. Calculate the mass of the electron using e=1.60×10-19C.
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A scientist is doing an experiment on a beam of electrons travelling at right angles to a uniform magnetic field of flux density B. The graph shows the variation of the magnetic force F acting on an electron with the speed v of the electron.

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The gradient of the graph is G. The magnitude of the charge on the electron is e. What is the correct relationship for the magnetic flux density B?

B=G, B B=G×e, C B=Ge, D B=eG

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The magnetic force BQv causes an electron to travel in a circle in a uniform magnetic field. Explain why this force does not cause an increase in the speed of the electron.
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An electron beam is produced from an electron gun in which each electron is accelerated through a potential difference (p.d.) of 1.6 kV. When these electrons pass at right angles through a magnetic field of flux density 8.0 mT,, the radius of curvature of the electron beam is 0.017 m

Calculate the ratio eme(known as the specific charge of the electron).

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Two particles, an α-particle and a β-particle, are travelling through a uniform magnetic field. They have the same speed and their velocities are at right angles to the field. Determine the ratio of:

(a) the mass of the α-particle to the mass of the β-particle.

Mass of proton m=1.67×10-27 kg