Ionized particles entering a mass spectrometer


When the ionized particles entering a mass spectrometer are simply accelerated across the potential difference between two charged plates, there is always the chance of an uncontrolled variation in their velocities due to their random thermal motion before they undergo linear acceleration. An elaboration of the basic mass spectrometer design better controls the incoming velocity of the ions by passing them through a velocity selector before they enter the magnetic deflection chamber. Suppose that the same uniform magnetic field, having a strength 0.750 T, is used in both the velocity selector and the deflection chamber. In this chamber, singly ionized argon ions with a mass of 6.63×10-26 kg are to be deflected through semi-circular arcs of radius 12.0 cm. If the oppositely charged plates of the velocity selector are separated by 2.00 cm, what is the required potential difference between them?

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