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E-cross-B drift ( $E \times B / B^{2}$ )

In uniform perpendicular electric and magnetic fields, a charged particle's cyclotron orbit has guiding-centre velocity

v_{D} = \frac{E \times B}{B ^{2}},

independent of its charge and mass.

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