Lesson: Identifying Particles in Detectors Physics

Students will be able to

• identify the direction of the force experienced by a charged particle moving in a magnetic field,
• use for a charged particle moving in a magnetic field to find the charge-to-mass ratio of the particle,
• use data about the charge-to-mass ratio of different particles to identify unknown particles based on information about their paths in a magnetic field,
• interpret diagrams of the path of a charged particle in a magnetic field to determine properties such as the charge-to-mass ratio and the charge of a particle.