An a particle (a helium nucleus (two protons and two neutrons)) is travelling through a bubble chamber in a direction perpendicular to the chamber's uniform magnetic field of 0.5 T. If its path follows a circle of radius 174 µm, how fast is it going, in m/s?

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An a particle (a helium nucleus (two protons and two neutrons)) is travelling through
a bubble chamber in a direction perpendicular to the chamber's uniform magnetic
field of 0.5 T. If its path follows a circle of radius 174 µm, how fast is it going, in m/s?
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Transcribed Image Text:An a particle (a helium nucleus (two protons and two neutrons)) is travelling through a bubble chamber in a direction perpendicular to the chamber's uniform magnetic field of 0.5 T. If its path follows a circle of radius 174 µm, how fast is it going, in m/s? C C Op. @
V- Bar
V=
0.5 T x 2 x 16 x 10-196x 174 x 10-6
·x 10-27 Ks
v = 4218.2 m/s
m
Transcribed Image Text:V- Bar V= 0.5 T x 2 x 16 x 10-196x 174 x 10-6 ·x 10-27 Ks v = 4218.2 m/s m
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