Question: The solar wind is a thin hot gas given off by the sun in all directions. Some of the charged particles enter the magnetic

The solar wind is a thin hot gas given off by the

  

The solar wind is a thin hot gas given off by the sun in all directions. Some of the charged particles enter the magnetic field of the Earth and can experience a magnetic force. Suppose some charged particles traveling at 9.0 x 105 m/s encounter the Earth's magnetic field at an angle of 90 where the magnitude of the field is 1.2 x 107 T. Find the radius of the circular path on which the particle would move it were (a) an electron and (b) a proton.

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