Solution

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After the electric field is removed, the uniform magnetic field preserves the speed. Decompose the instantaneous initial velocity as , with and signed . Then
and, integrating,
This is a helical motion in a uniform magnetic field of radius and angular frequency . It is a circle if , and a straight line if . The formula assumes a uniform, nonzero field and nonrelativistic motion.

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