Accelerator Definition and 215 Threads

It is time for my HS Physics Class final project. I have about a month to design and build a piece of equipment to show my knowledge of any topic we have covered this year. My idea was to have a basic small magnetic linear accelerator ( just basic type for shooting steel balls such as this...

Heres one more question In a particle accelerator, an alpha particle with a mass of 6.64 x10^-27 kg is moving with a speed of 2.50x10^7 m/s. It is moving perpendicularily through a magnetic field of intensity 0.150 T. Using appropriote equations and method find the radius of curvature of...

How do particle accelerators contribute to physics? I know after you smash particles together, you get a bunch of resultant particles, and then they annihilate. But we've been doing that for a long time; we've observed many collisions, and many particles, so why do we keep smashing particles...

I've just got my final year project assigned. It has to do with a numerical simulation of a Ram Accelerator device. Well, apart of having doubts, which I will post just here proximately, I would want to know some website to learn more about that type of device. Apart of Google sites...

Ive been working on this problem for a few hours and can't get the last few parts. In a linear accelerator, protons are accelerated from rest through a potential difference to a speed of approximately 3.1 X 10^6 meters per second. The resulting proton beam produces a current of 2 X 10^-6...

Ok I am doing a physics the 11 Qestions of physics that are hooped to be explained by the end of this century or decade or somthing like that. I ended up with the question: What is a cosmic acelerator and what does it accelerate. I know that it accelerates Cosmic Rays but i don't know what the...

hi all its has been told in books that a particle accelerator can reproduce the initial conditions in the Universe But we know that this gadgets have very high voltages but low currents so the product V*I = Energy is not too high to assert that I think lighting can carry much more energy...

Has anyone ever been to Fermi Lab near Chicago? I was wondering about it, because I read about it in a book talking about particle accelerators.

Can anyone give me a link to or information about how to build a PRACTICAL particle accelerator? Like one that would fit inside a basement or garage? Please, no handhelds that can't do much, and no mile-long underground accelerators that require their own nuclear power plant. I am interested...

This is a little bit of a mouthful but any help would be greatly appreciated. :smile: I am building a linear accelerator similar to the one found on this site: http://www.scitoys.com/scitoys/scitoys/magnets/gauss.html This is for a physics 12 project with my friends, but only it is on a...

Last summer I finished my Tesla Coil and am now working on my next summer project, a small particle accelerator. I figured the easiest place to start would be with some sort of Van de Graff generator. I was wondering if anyone out there has built any similar device and has any useful tips...

I was wondering how to build a particle accelerator at home. If it is possible, please tell me how. Thank You -ATCG

I have seen a few references to neutral particle accelerators, anybody know how they work? For example, how would it be possible to accelerate a neutron to near-c velocity?

I enjoy the X-Files; big surprise eh? Sometime the references to scientific subjects just kill me. I just saw an episode where Moldy and Smelly visit an particle accelerator. They use billions of megawatts to make Meesons.

does somebody knows how a linear acccelerator works or know any website about the accelerators. and how much it costs to built a cheap home made laser.