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Past exam of the theoretical physics I course of the University of Cambridge 2018 1 e Solution by
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Let for a nonzero constant magnetic field. Since is constant, the relativistic Lorentz force reduces toThe projection along is constant. In the perpendicular plane define the signed cyclotron frequency ; thenThe explicit rotating velocity isThis is the relativistic cyclotron orbit frequency in laboratory time, reduced from the nonrelativistic frequency by . With nonzero parallel velocity, the trajectory is a helix. If , that perpendicular vector stays zero and has no nontrivial fundamental period; the displayed is the period of a nonzero transverse orbit.
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