User talk:SpDey

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Happy editing! Drmies (talk) 23:00, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

Bubble chamber
Hi SpDey, welcome to Wikipedia. Whenever you add new material you need to provide a reliable source: for every non-trivial sentence, for every non-trivial equation. So in general your derivation can stay only if you can cite a book or (peer-reviewed, not self-published) article that has those same formulas. See WP:OR. I personally would not add the trajectory derivation to Bubble chamber because things there are a bit more complicated (due to different losses the trajectories spiral, they're never circles), and because the whole article isn't that mathematical. You could, for example, expand Gyroradius and add a sentence or two in Bubble chamber summarizing the main results. I've noticed some other issues: m and γ are missing in $$d\vec{v}/dt= q\vec{v}\times \vec{B}$$; $$v_{\perp 0}$$ was never defined; "the magnitude of the total velocity does not change" points to a PDF that only considers the non-relativistic case, which -however trivial- might be confusing. Cheers, Ponor (talk) 02:03, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

Hi Ponor, thank you for taking the time to read through and reply - I'll keep the referencing in mind      for future posts and all of the above makes sense in terms of incorporating the mathematics (also thank you for spotting the error in the working, I missed it!). SpDey (talk) 10:24, 1 February 2021 (UTC)