Physics Technology Update (4th Edition)

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ISBN 10: 0-32190-308-0
ISBN 13: 978-0-32190-308-2

Chapter 22 - Magnetism - Problems and Conceptual Exercises - Page 793: 29

Answer

(a) $1.00$ (b) $0.0233$

Work Step by Step

(a) We know that $r=\frac{P}{qB}$ For electrons $r_e=\frac{P_e}{eB}$....eq(1) and for the proton $r_p=\frac{P_p}{eB}$.....eq(2) Dividing eq(1) by eq(2), we have $\frac{r_e}{r_p}=\frac{\frac{P_e}{eB}}{\frac{P_p}{eB}}=1.00$ (b) We know that $\frac{1}{2}m_ev_e^2=\frac{1}{2}m_pv_p^2$ but $v=\frac{erB}{m}$ $\frac{1}{2}m_e(\frac{er_eB}{m_e})^2=\frac{1}{2}m_p(\frac{er_pB}{m_p})^2$ This simplifies to: $\frac{r_e^2}{m_e}=\frac{r_p^2}{m_p}$ $\implies (\frac{r_e}{r_p})^2=\frac{m_e}{m_p}$ $\implies (\frac{r_e}{r_p})=\sqrt{\frac{m_e}{m_p}} $ We plug in the known values to obtain: $(\frac{r_e}{r_p})=\sqrt{\frac{9.11\times 10^{-31}Kg}{1.673\times 10^{-27}Kg}}=0.0233$
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