Booklet 2A - Particles (Worked Examples) Flashcards
The height of the Eifel Tower is 301m.
An average human hair is about 50 μm thick.
How many orders of magnitude is the Eifel Tower larger than the thickness of a human hair?
The height of the Eifel Tower is 3.01 x 102 m. This is an order of magnitude 2.
The thickness of a human hair is 5 x 10-5 m.This is an order of magnitude -5.
The Eiffel Tower is 2 - (-5) = 7 orders of magnitude larger than a human hair.
A proton is accelerated from rest through a potential difference of 10 V.
(a) Calculate the electric potential energy gained.
(b) Calculate the speed of the proton at the end.
V = 10 V Q = 1.6 x 10<sup>-19</sup> C (from data sheet) m = 1.673 x 10<sup>-27</sup> kg (from data sheet)
(a) W = QV
= 1.6 x 10-19 x 10
= 1.6 x 10-18 J
(b) Ek = ½mv2
1.6 x 10-18 = ½ x 1.673 x 10-27 x v2
v = 4.37 x 104 ms-1
Complete the following nuclear equation for alpha emission:
22488Ra ⇒ 42He + X
224 - 4 = 220
88 - 2 = 86
From periodic table 86 is the atomic number for Radon (Rn)
X is 22086Rn
Mistake in scan! mass of Mo is 162.5 x 10-27 kg