Robert Hofstadter won the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics for

Chapter 40, Problem 45

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Robert Hofstadter won the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics for his pioneering work in studying the scattering of 20-GeV electrons from nuclei. (a) What is the g factor for an electron with total energy 20.0 GeV, defined by g 5 1/!1 2 u2 /c 2 ? (b) Find the momentum of the electron. (c) Find the wavelength of the electron. (d) State how the wavelength compares with the diameter of an atomic nucleus, typically on the order of 10214 m.

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