Gyro radius

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The Gyro radius is the radius of the circle made by a gyrating particle . It is:

\rho=\frac{v_\perp}{\Omega_c}=\frac{v_\perp m c}{q B}

Where v_\perp is the velocity of the particle perpendicular to the magnetic field.

This page was recovered in October 2009 from the Plasmagicians page on Gyro_radius dated 01:26, 19 October 2006.

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