ENGINEERING APPLICATION On average, a neutron actually
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ENGINEERING APPLICATION On average, a neutron actually loses only 63 percent of its energy in an elastic collision with a hydrogen atom (not 100 percent) and 11 percent of its energy in an elastic collision with a carbon atom (not 28 percent). (These numbers are an average over all types of collisions, not just head-on ones. Thus, the results are lower than the ones determined from analyses like that in 112, because most collisions are not head-on.) Calculate the actual number of collisions, on average, needed to reduce the energy of a neutron from to if the neutron collides with (a) stationary hydrogen atoms and (b) stationary carbon atoms.
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