
This question is about the velocity selector shown in figure.

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
A Hall probe is designed to operate with a steady current of in a semiconductor slice of thickness . The number density of charge carriers (electrons) in the semiconductor is .
(a) Calculate the Hall voltage that will result when the probe is placed at right angles to a magnetic field of flux density . (Elementary chargee)

A Hall probe is designed to operate with a steady current of in a semiconductor slice of thickness . The number density of charge carriers (electrons) in the semiconductor is .
(b) Explain why the current in the Hall probe must be maintained at a constant value.



A scientist is doing an experiment on a beam of electrons travelling at right angles to a uniform magnetic field of flux density . The graph shows the variation of the magnetic force acting on an electron with the speed v of the electron.
The gradient of the graph is . The magnitude of the charge on the electron is e. What is the correct relationship for the magnetic flux density ?
A , B , C , D


An electron beam is produced from an electron gun in which each electron is accelerated through a potential difference () of When these electrons pass at right angles through a magnetic field of flux density , the radius of curvature of the electron beam is
Calculate the ratio (known as the specific charge of the electron).

Two particles, an -particle and a -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 -particle to the mass of the -particle.
Mass of proton
