An electron is moving with constant velocity along x - axis. If a uniform electric field is applied along y - axis, then its path in the x - y plane will be
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If a uniform electric field is applied in 
-direction, then a force acts in the 
direction for the moving electron. Thus the case is thus of a projectile and the path is a parabola
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