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Revision as of 13:05, 26 February 2010
The Larmor radius is the radius of gyration of a charged particle moving in a magnetic field. Balancing the Lorentz Force
with the centripetal force, whose magnitude is
One immediately obtains
where only the perpendicular component of the velocity (with respect to the magnetic field) enters.