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Exams, Protons, and Refrigerator Magnets

May 7th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Many of my students had their final exams today. In the weeks leading up to the exam, we reviewed by doing homework problems and working final exams from previous years. Here’s one of the questions:
Protons of velocity 5×106 m/s are moving perpendicular to electric and magnetic fields which are crossed at right angles [...]

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Tags: College Physics 101 · Worked Problems