College Physics 10th Edition by Raymond Serway,Chris Vuille

Exercise 21

Singly ionized carbon atoms are accelerated through 1 000 V and passed into a mass spectrometer to determine the isotopes present. (See Chapter 19.) The magnetic field strength in the spectrometer is 0.200 T. (a) Determine the orbital radii for the 12 C and the 13 C isotopes as they pass through the field. (b) Show that the ratio of the radii may be written in the form
and verify that your radii in part (a) satisfy this formula