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mike217
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Hello Everyone,
Can you please help me with this problem. I am not looking for a complete solution to it, I just need a few guidelines on how to proceed. Here it is,
Let us consider a perfectly inelastic collision between two protons: an incident proton with mass m, kinetic energy K, and momentum magnitude p joins with an originally stationary target proton to form a single product particle of mass M. Show that the energy available to create a product particle is given by,
Mc^2=2mc^2(1+K/(2mc^2))^1/2
Thank you.
Can you please help me with this problem. I am not looking for a complete solution to it, I just need a few guidelines on how to proceed. Here it is,
Let us consider a perfectly inelastic collision between two protons: an incident proton with mass m, kinetic energy K, and momentum magnitude p joins with an originally stationary target proton to form a single product particle of mass M. Show that the energy available to create a product particle is given by,
Mc^2=2mc^2(1+K/(2mc^2))^1/2
Thank you.