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Kylle
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Hallo Physics Forum

I have a question, if you have a particle( a charged particle ) in a vacuum tube with applied voltage
then how can you calculate the speed and acceleration it will get in the tube when there's applied voltage to the tube
 
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Kylle said:
Hallo Physics Forum

I have a question, if you have a particle( a charged particle ) in a vacuum tube with applied voltage
then how can you calculate the speed and acceleration it will get in the tube when there's applied voltage to the tube

You can calculate its final speed (just use energy conservation), but not its acceleration which depends on the length of the tube.
 
dauto said:
You can calculate its final speed (just use energy conservation), but not its acceleration which depends on the length of the tube.


If you or anyone knows have to calculate the acceleration in a tube with length x
It whould be very usefull
 
ZapperZ said:
Did you even look at the link I gave you? You have all the kinematical equations that you need to find the acceleration!

{scratches head}

Zz...


Oh sorry.
Thanks for the help. It helped a lot