Inquiry question: What happens to stationary and moving charged particles when they interact with an electric or magnetic field?

Students:

● Investigate and quantitatively derive and analyse the interaction between charged particles and uniform electric fields, including: (ACSPH083)

– Electric field between parallel charged plates

– Acceleration of charged particles by the electric field

– Work done on the charge ? = ??, ? = ???,

● Model qualitatively and quantitatively the trajectories of charged particles in electric fields and compare them with the trajectories of projectiles in a gravitational field

● Analyse the interaction between charged particles and uniform magnetic fields, including: (ACSPH083)

– Acceleration, perpendicular to the field, of charged particles

– The force on the charge ? = ??⊥? = ???sin?

● Compare the interaction of charged particles moving in magnetic fields to:

– The interaction of charged particles with electric fields

– Other examples of uniform circular motion (ACSPH108)