Introduction To Health Physics
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To determine
The number of collisions in graphite required to reduce the energy of 2.5 MeV to 1% of 2.5 MeV.
(b)
To determine
The number of collisions in graphite required to reduce the energy of 2.5 MeV to 0.025 eV.
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