Physics (10th Edition)

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Chapter 29 - Particles and Waves - Problems - Page 841: 16

Answer

speed of ping pong ball $v=4.18559\times10^{-22}m/s$

Work Step by Step

Wavelength of the photon of red light is $\lambda=720nm=720\times10^{-9}m=7.2\times10^{-7}m$ Momentum of the photon is given by $p=\frac{h}{\lambda}$ putting $h=6.63\times10^{-34}J.s$ and $\lambda=7.2\times10^{-7}m$ so $p=\frac{6.63\times10^{-34}J.s}{7.2\times10^{-7}m}=0.920833\times10^{-24}kg.m/s$ $p=9.2083\times10^{-25}kg.m/s$ given that photon of red light and ping pong ball have the same momentum so momentum of pin pong ball $p_{ppb}=9.2083\times10^{-25}kg.m/s$ given mass of ping pong ball $ m=2.2\times10^{-3}kg$ assuming speed of ping pong ball to be $v$ ,its momentum will be $p_{ppb}=m\times v$ so speed of ping pong ball $v=\frac{p_{ppb}}{m}$ so speed of ping pong ball $v=\frac{9.2083\times10^{-25}kg.m/s}{2.2\times10^{-3}kg}$ so speed of ping pong ball $v=4.18559\times10^{-22}m/s$
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