If the velocity of charged particle has both perpendicular and parallel components while moving through a magnetic field, then what is the path followed by a charged particle?
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Let the velocity 
of the particle entering the field B, instead of being perpendicular to B makes an angle with it.
Then, v may be resolved into two components. 
parallel to B and 
perpendicular to B. The component 
gives a linear path and the component 
gives a circular path to the particle. The resultant of these two is a helical path whose axis is parallel to the magnetic field.
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