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Mass-to-charge ratio
The
mass-to-charge ratio
(
m
/
Q
) is a
physical quantity
that is most widely used in the
electrodynamics
of charged particles, e.g. in electron optics and
ion optics
. It appears in the scientific fields of
electron microscopy
,
cathode ray tubes
,
accelerator physics
,
nuclear physics
,
Auger electron spectroscopy
,
cosmology
and
mass spectrometry
. The importance of the mass-to-charge ratio, according to classical electrodynamics, is that two particles with the same mass-to-charge ratio move in the same path in a vacuum when subjected to the same electric and magnetic fields. Its SI units are
kg
/
C
.
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