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For some reason I don't feel like I was given all of the information on this question:
A proton at rest is struck by a photon in a Compton collision. If the recoil kinetic energy of the proton is 4.5 MeV, what is the minimum energy of the incident photon (in MeV)? (Take the mass of the proton to be 938 MeV/c2.)
I applied energy conservation but it didn't seem to work. (Yes the title is misleading, I confused it with something else)
A proton at rest is struck by a photon in a Compton collision. If the recoil kinetic energy of the proton is 4.5 MeV, what is the minimum energy of the incident photon (in MeV)? (Take the mass of the proton to be 938 MeV/c2.)
I applied energy conservation but it didn't seem to work. (Yes the title is misleading, I confused it with something else)