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Ion acceleration in an electric field

Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2016 5:11 pm
by Harrison Gieselman
I am building a Fusor to do some research on grid sizing, but I have a question that I can't seem to find an answer to anywhere. In an electric field, what is the acceleration of an ion? I know that an ion in a 30Kv field accelerates to 30KeV, but at what rate does it accelerate?

Re: Ion acceleration in an electric field

Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2016 5:23 pm
by Andrew Seltzman
F=ma
F=qE
a=F/m
a=qE/m