FUNDAMENTALS OF PHYSICS - EXTENDED
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Chapter 37, Problem 57P
Quasars are thought to be the nuclei of active galaxies in the early stages of their formation. A typical quasar
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A particle has γ=18,399.
a)Calculate c-v in m/s. (I would have asked for 1 - v/c, making the answer dimensionless, but the system doesn't seem to take numbers that small. Gamma is chosen to make the particle extremely close to the speed of light.)
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b) In the previous problem, in a race to the moon, by 3/4ths the distance, light is one or ten meters ahead of the particle. We routinely approximate mass as zero, gamma as infinite, and speed as the speed of light. ("Massless particles" -- gamma and m have to be eliminated from the expressions. Light is a true massless particle.) If a massless particle has momentum 1,739 MeV/c, calculate its energy in MeV.
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