Q.Arrange electron (e), proton (p) and deutron
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Start your 14-day free trial to unlock the full solution →Specific charge is largest for the lightest particle (electron) and smallest for the heaviest (deuteron), giving the increasing order deuteron, proton, electron.
Specific charge (charge-to-mass ratio) is defined as , and it is exactly this ratio that a Bainbridge-type mass spectrometer or a Thomson apparatus measures via the radius of circular deflection in a magnetic field (, so ).
For the electron, the charge magnitude is the elementary charge C, and its mass is extremely small, kg, giving a specific charge C/kg — by far the largest of the three, because the electron is thousands of times lighter than the proton for the same magnitude of charge.
For the proton, the charge is also , but the mass is kg (about 1836 times the electron's mass), giving C/kg.
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