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A collimated beam of charged and uncharged particles is directed towards a hole marked $P$ on a screen as shown below. If the electric and magnetic fields as indicated below are turned $ON$

only particles with speed $E / B$ will go through the hole $P$
only charged particles with speed $E / B$ and neutral particles will go through $P$
only neutral particles will go through $P$
only positively charged particles with speed $E / B$ and neutral particles will go through $P$
Solution
$(c)$ The force on a charged particle moving in combined electric and magnetic field is
$F =q( E + v \times B )$
For given direction of $v$, the net force is in downward direction. So, no charge will be able to go through the hole $P$.
Hence, only neutral particle will go undeviated.