Physics Technology Update (4th Edition)

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ISBN 10: 0-32190-308-0
ISBN 13: 978-0-32190-308-2

Chapter 32 - Nuclear Physics and Nuclear Radiation - Problems and Conceptual Exercises - Page 1155: 87

Answer

$264m/s$

Work Step by Step

We know that $mv=\frac{E}{C}$ This can be rearranged as: $v=\frac{E}{mc}$ We plug in the known values to obtain: $v=\frac{1}{226.025406u}(\frac{1u}{931.5MeV/c^2})(\frac{0.186MeV}{c})$ $v=8.83\times 10^{-7}c=264m/s$
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