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Summary: What is energy of proton, deuteron and alpha particle in circular motion of the same radius.
Hello, I have a problem.
Here is the content of an exercise:
In some experiment, proton with energy of 1MeV is in circular motion in isotropic magnetic field. What energies would have deuteron and alpha particle to orbit in a circle of the exact same radius r?Wouldn't be much of a problem if it wouldn't be "relativity" problem. In classical example I would guess that for deuteron energy would be twice as big as for single proton (because of additional neutron), and for alpha particle it would be four times the energy of single proton. I am not 100% familliar with ale the relativity nuances, so I'd like to ask: Is my reasoning correct? Or there are additional effects taking place?
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Hello, I have a problem.
Here is the content of an exercise:
In some experiment, proton with energy of 1MeV is in circular motion in isotropic magnetic field. What energies would have deuteron and alpha particle to orbit in a circle of the exact same radius r?Wouldn't be much of a problem if it wouldn't be "relativity" problem. In classical example I would guess that for deuteron energy would be twice as big as for single proton (because of additional neutron), and for alpha particle it would be four times the energy of single proton. I am not 100% familliar with ale the relativity nuances, so I'd like to ask: Is my reasoning correct? Or there are additional effects taking place?
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