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Skullmonkee
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Homework Statement
Find the maximum accuracy that can be found to a proton's position without changing it's (not-realativistic) kinetic energy by more that 1 keV
I think this involves Heisenberg's uncertainty principle [tex]\Delta x\Delta p=hbar/2[/tex] but I am not sure at all.
Now to find the momentum p of a non-realativistic kinetic energy we can use [tex]E(kinetic) = 1/2mv^2 = p^2/2m[/tex]
which gives [tex]p = \sqrt{}2mE[/tex]
however this is as far as i got.
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