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College Physics
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SciencePhysicsCollege PhysicsIntegrated Concepts Plans for an accelerator that produces a secondary beam of K−mesons to scatter from nuclei, for the purpose of studying the strong force, call for them to have a kinetic energy of 500 MeV. (a) What would the relativistic quantity be for these particles? (b) How long would their average lifetime be in the laboratory? (c) How far could they travel in this time?
Integrated Concepts Plans for an accelerator that produces a secondary beam of K−mesons to scatter from nuclei, for the purpose of studying the strong force, call for them to have a kinetic energy of 500 MeV. (a) What would the relativistic quantity be for these particles? (b) How long would their average lifetime be in the laboratory? (c) How far could they travel in this time?
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Plans for an accelerator that produces a secondary beam of K−mesons to scatter from nuclei, for the purpose of studying the strong force, call for them to have a kinetic energy of 500 MeV. (a) What would the relativistic quantity 
be for these particles? (b) How long would their average lifetime be in the laboratory? (c) How far could they travel in this time?
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