negative charge coming from sky towards earth is deflected towards?
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I’m not exactly sure why other answers mention a left hand rule. The right hand rule is used for this problem and any problem involving the deflection of positive charges and conventional electrical currents. A makeshift “left hand rule” should only ever apply to a negative charge or an actual electrical current. Regardless, accurately evaluating the cross product does result in the positively charged particle getting deflected to east. Pointing your middle finger to the ground and your index finger to the north (the north pole is actually the Earth’s magnetic south pole) results in your thumb pointing to the east, and so that’s where the force will be applied to the particle. Facing the particle from the north, it will look as if it is spiraling to the east and west as well as down and up in a clockwise direction (counterclockwise from the south). However, this circular path it follows will continue to move downward because gravity also acts on the particle, and then it will keep spiraling/falling until it reaches the atmosphere, where it will fall to where the bouyant force balances out the gravitational force on the particle. Then, the particle will spiral indefinitely until another particle collides with it and deflects it out of its ordinary path, after which it will resume spiraling somewhere else, other particles collide with the particle until it loses all of its positive charge (if this is possible), or an anion bonds with the particle.
I hope that helps!
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