Cosmic Ray Electron

Cosmic Ray Electron#

Question Text#

A cosmic-ray electron moves at 3.9×106 m/s perpendicular to Earth’s magnetic field at an altitude where the field strength is 3.3×105 T. What is the radius of the circular path the electron follows?

Answer Section#

Attribution#

Problem is from the OpenStax University Physics Volume 2 textbook, licensed under the CC-BY 4.0 license.
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