Solved: (a) What is the speed v of an electron whose

Chapter 36, Problem 36.77

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(a) What is the speed v of an electron whose kinetic energyis 14,000 times its rest energy? You can state the answer asthe difference c - v. Such speeds are reached in the StanfordLinear Accelerator, SLAC. (b) If the electrons travel inthe lab through a tube 3.0 km long (as at SLAC), how longis this tube in the electrons reference frame? [Hint: Use thebinomial expansion.]

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