What is the particles kinetic energy and particles speed

Reference no: EM13546977

A certain particle of mass m has a momentum of 0.9mc. (For the following questions, leave all your answers in terms of m and/or c.) a) What is the particle’s speed? (Careful here….the answer is not 0.9c) b) What is the particle’s Lorentz factor? (The Lorentz factor is the name of the quantity ?) c) What is the particle’s kinetic energy? d) What is the particle’s rest energy? e) What is the particle’s total energy?

Reference no: EM13546977

Questions Cloud

Setting potential and kinetic energies equal to each other : A cylinder of length L is resting at the base of a surface inclined at an angle alpha above the horizontal. The cylinder, with mass Mc and radius Rc, is free to rotate about an axis through its center. The coefficient of kinetic friction between t..

Find the final speed of the ball and the pin and the angle : In order to pick up a split in bowling you determine you need to hit one of the pins and force it to move off at a 70 degree angle from the direction of the incoming ball. The ball’s mass is five times that of the pin and is moving at 12.0 m/s when i..

Small block with mass m1 rest on frictionless horizontal : A small block with mass m1 rest on a frictionless horizontal tabletop a distance r1 from a hole in the center of the table. A light, stretchless string tied to the small block passes down through the hole, and a larger block with mass m2 is suspen..

What is average angular speed of towers top about it base : Between 1911 and 1990, the top of the leaning bell tower at Pisa, Italy, moved toward the south at an average rate of 1.2 mm/y. The tower is 55 m tall. In radians per second, what is the average angular speed of the tower's top about its base?

What is the particles kinetic energy and particles speed : A certain particle of mass m has a momentum of 0.9mc. (For the following questions, leave all your answers in terms of m and/or c.) a) What is the particle’s speed? (Careful here….the answer is not 0.9c)

Earth monitoring the receding spaceship : A spaceship is moving away from Earth at a speed of 0.65c. A light source on the rear of the ship appears blue (? = 450 nm) to passengers on the ship. Which color (what wavelength) would that source appear to an observer on Earth monitoring the reced..

What recessional speed would an observer on galaxy : Galaxy A is measured to be receding from us with a speed of 0.75c. Galaxy B, located in precisely the opposite direction, is found to be receding from us at a speed of 0.85c. a) What recessional speed would an observer on Galaxy A find for our galaxy..

How much time will have elapsed by earth clocks : Captain Katherine Janeway takes off from Earth and moves at speed 0.96c toward the star Sirius, which is 8.6 ly distant. a

Collision in the large hadron collider : An unstable high-energy particle is created during a collision in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Its speed relative to the stationary collider is measured to be 0.995c, and the particle leaves a track 12.05 mm long before it decays.

User Account

All Pages