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Question 17 (15 marks) The Relativistic Heavy lon Collider (RHIC), located at Brookhaven National Laboratory in the United States, enables physicists to learn more about the elemen
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Question 17 (3 marks) Consider the following hypothetical situation. Rachel is driving her rocket-powered vehicle along a straight test track and travels at a constant velocity bet
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a. Show that the total energy, Eu, of a gold ion accelerated to 1.90 TeV is 3.04 x 1071. 1 mark
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b. Assuming classical (Newtonian) physics, what speed would a gold ion reach if accelerated to a kinetic energy of 1.90 TeV? 2 marks ms”
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c. Docs your answer to part b agree with our understanding of physics? Justify your answer. 2 marks of 1.90 TeV (3.04 x 107). Show that the Lorentz factor, y, for one of these gold
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d. The gold ions are accelerated to a total energy, , otal> o ° =) S H FE he Id I ® 2 £ 8 = [=]
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e. As part of testing and calibrating the ac accelerating potential for the gold ions rator at the RHIC, scientists vary the (Au-179), providing them with a known total energy, and
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i. Sketch a curve on the graph in Figure 18 above that represents a suitable fit of the data. 2 marks
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ii. What is the physical significance of the dashed horizontal line shown on the graph? 1 mark Estimate the value of the horizontal intercept of the graph. Explain its physical sig
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Question 18 (3 marks) A hydrogen atom emits a photon with energy 2.9 eV.
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a. Calculate the wavelength of the emitted photon in nanometres (nm). 2 marks nm
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b. Figure 21 shows some of the energy levels of hydrogen atoms. Draw an arrow on Figure 21 that would represent the transition in part a. 1 mark Figure 21 n = 1 ground state 0 eV n
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