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Unreasonable Results

Avg difficulty 2.5

(a) Find the charge on a baseball, thrown at 35.0 m/s perpendicular to the Earth’s 5.00×10−5T5 . \text{00} \times \text{10}^{- 5} T field, that experiences a 1.00-N magnetic force. (b) What is unreasonable about this result? (c) Which assumption or premise is responsible?

OpenStax College Physics 2e, 22.11 More Applications of Magnetism, exercise 34

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