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Niles
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Homework Statement
Hi
1) I read the following article: http://pdg.lbl.gov/2005/reviews/passagerpp.pdf
On page 12 of the .pdf there is a figure, figure 27.8, which shows how a charged particle deviates from it's path when scattered by the Coulomb force that comes from the nuclei of the matter in the bubble chamber.
I don't understand the figure. I know I am supposed to use formula 27.15 (my teacher told me), but I don't get the geometry in figure 27.8 - the bold line is the particle's trajectory and the whole grey area is the matter it is moving it (the bubble chamber). S_plane - which I must find - is the distance between the trajectory and the "dotted" line - but what does the dotted line represent?
2) When talking about Coulomb-forces; if an electron in a bubble-chamber gets near a nuclei in the champers matter (lets say hydrogen, H_2). Then does the hydrogen-atom attract the eletron? And vice versa - if a proton gets near the H_2-nuclei, does it get repelled?
Do the particles have to pass next to the nuclei or can it be outside the atom?
These were my two questions. I hope you can help me,
thanks.
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