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Exercise 8

Mass of an ion in the spectrometer

Theory used: Mass spectrometer

In a mass spectrometer ions of charge , starting practically at rest, are accelerated by the potential difference and enter a uniform magnetic field perpendicular to the velocity, where they describe a semicircle of radius . Compute the mass of the ions in kilograms and in atomic mass units ().

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