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What are the main reasons that lead an ion to travel in a circle, with an applied magnetic field? |
1. Due to the force being perpendicular to the velocity. 2. Hence there is a centripetal force that acts towards a center point. 3. Which keeps the particle in a circular orbit |
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What would happen if you doubled the mass of the particle during mass spectrometry? |
The radius is going to double as the mass is proportional to the radius |
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What would the effect be if you doubled the charge on the particles in a mass spectrometer? |
The radius is going to quater, this is because charge is inversely proportional to the radius. |
