Question

State working principle of cyclotron with diagram.

Answer 1

Principle: Cyclotron works on the principle that a positively charged particle can be accelerated by making it to cross the same electric field repeatedly with the help of a magnetic field.....

Answer 2

Cyclotron :

Cyclotron is a device used to accelerate the charged particles to gain large kinetic energy. It is also called as high energy accelerator. It was invented by Lawrence and Livingston in 1934.

Principle :

When a charged particle moves normal to the magnetic field, it experiences magnetic Lorentz force

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Limitations of cyclotron :

(a) the speed of the ion is limited

(b) electron cannot be accelerated

(c) uncharged particles cannot be accelerated.