Homework Statement
Consider what happens as a parallel beam of non-relativistic electrons with beam radius a is injected as a current I into a region of vacuum after acceleration through a voltage difference V. If the radial profile of the beam can be described as
p=p0 cos(\frac{\pi...
By the way everyone i built the cloud chamber and it worked perfectly, here's a tiny portion of the half hour footage we took! Once again thanks to everyone who helped out with my problem! https://www.dropbox.com/s/gj22q6ufuixsfpi/Cloud%20Chamber.mov
As I said the theory was a hypothetical scenario, it was negating collisions, electron capture or any other advance physics that might alter the outcome of the alpha particle...but I'm not trying to prove the ability to trap an alpha particle with my theory...it's only the temperature energy...
I was talking about a box of alpha particles, not just one, but yes, that's what the physics in my head was saying, the energy would rise, the standard physics is the energy of a system is proportional to the temperature of the system, but yes...thanks so much for the help here!
Oh I know that, I wasn't talking about the physics of the cloud chamber itself, just a hypothetical scenario to feed my curiosity if they could ever be affected by temperature...ironically this was my first post and thread...I can see this place as a great way for physicists to ask questions
I'm not talking about any specific energies at which they are released by, could be any energy, my logic is if these alpha particles were in a box from which they could maintain whatever energy they were released with and the box was heated up uniformly (to which the alpha particles could not...
Ok, so I am currently building a cloud chamber for a major presentation in the area of Thermodynamics (or Energy and Temperature) and I've been thinking quite a bit about this theory...and i could be wrong...so don't tell me off about it...
So the general physics of a cloud chamber, Isopropyl...