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3 years ago

Why should it take significantly more energy to move a beam of alpha particles than a beam of beta minus (β–) particles?

Physics

2 answers:

lana [24]3 years ago

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Because the mass of an alpha particle is significantly greater than the mass of a beta particle

a_sh-v [17]3 years ago

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An 'alpha particle' is the same thing as the nucleus of a helium atom ...
a little bundle made of 2 protons and 2 neutrons.

A 'beta' particle is an electron.

The mass of an alpha particle is more than 7,000 times the mass of
an electron, so it certainly takes more energy to get it moving.

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$f=\frac{nv}{2l}\\\\l=\frac{342}{2*440}\\ l=0.389m\\$ .

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$B=/f_{1}-f_{2}/\\B=/440-443/\\B=3Hz$ .

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