Physics Technology Update (4th Edition)

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ISBN 10: 0-32190-308-0
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Chapter 20 - Electric Potential and Electric Potential Energy - Problems and Conceptual Exercises - Page 722: 99

Answer

$3.58\times 10^{-14}m$

Work Step by Step

We know that $\frac{1}{2}mv^2=\frac{Kq_{\alpha}q}{r}$ This can be rearranged as: $r=K\frac{qq_{\alpha}}{\frac{1}{2}mv^2}$ We plug in the known values to obtain: $r=(9\times 10^9Nm^2/C^2)\frac{(79\times 10^{-19}C)(3.2\times 10^{-19}C)}{\frac{1}{2}(6.64\times 10^{-27}Kg)(1.75\times 10^7m/s)^2}$ $r=3.58\times 10^{-14}m$
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