Adding a Magnet
 Tracks of Particles in a Bubble Chamber |
Look how some of the tracks in the bubble chamber picture are curved. Particle physicists discovered that they could make the trails of the particles more distinctive if they put a magnet in their apparatus. The paths of charged particles would bend. The direction a particle bent depended on whether the particle had a positive or negative charge. In Particle Pool, we had nothing comparable to a magnet so our tracks were straight. |
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