Paper 3, Section II, B
Part II, 2010
A particle of rest-mass , electric charge , is moving relativistically along the path where parametrises the path.
Write down an action for which the extremum determines the particle's equation of motion in an electromagnetic field given by the potential .
Use your action to derive the particle's equation of motion in a form where is the proper time.
Suppose that the electric and magnetic fields are given by
where and are constants and .
Find given that the particle starts at rest at the origin when .
Describe qualitatively the motion of the particle.