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Motion of Charged Particles in Electric and Magnetic Fields

Problem 3.392

A particle with specific charge q/mq / m moves in the region of space where there are uniform mutually perpendicular electric and magnetic fields with strength E\mathbf{E} and induc-tion B (Fig. 3.104). At the moment t=0t=0 the particle was located at the point OO and had zero velocity. For the non-relativistic case find: (a) the law of motion x(t)x(t) and y(t)y(t) of the particle; the shape of the trajectory; (b) the length of the segment of the trajectory between two nearest points at which the velocity of the particle turns into zero; (c) the mean value of the particle's velocity vector projection on the xx axis (the drift velocity)

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