Schaum's Outline of College Physics, Twelfth Edition (Schaum's Outlines)
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ISBN: 9781259587399
Author: Eugene Hecht
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 41, Problem 23SP
A proton has a mass of 1.672 6 × 10–27 kg and is traveling at a speed where γ = 2.294 157; that’s 90% the
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Schaum's Outline of College Physics, Twelfth Edition (Schaum's Outlines)
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