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Grade 11Electrostatics

When a proton and a electron is thrown in same directin of electric field then what are their directions??? Plzz explain its reason.......

Profile image of Dhriti Kashyap
13 Years agoGrade 11
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Profile image of anurag hundal
13 Years ago

Suppose the electric field is from left to right..okay...that is frm positive to negative....

now when we throw a negative charge(electron)....it will go upwards.....and the proton will go downwards....

Profile image of Saurabh Anand
13 Years ago

firstly you have to understand what electric field is???

electric field is a region where a charge can feel force on it and its direction is in the direction of force on positive charged particle...it means suppose if electric field is along positive x axis then if we place a positive charged particle then it moves in the direction of electric field i.e. along positive x axis....and just reverse is in the case of negative charged particle i.e. electron

.....so now u can conclude that proton moves in the direction of electric field whereas

                                           electron moves in opposite direction of electric field...