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A particle of mass with an initial kinetic energy makes an elastic collision with a particle of mass initially at rest. is deflected from its original direction with a kinetic energy through an angle . Letting , show that the fractional kinetic energy lost by , is given by
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VerifiedBasically, what we are trying to calculate in this problem is fractional kinetic energy lost by
where is initial kinetic energy of mass , final kinetic energy of mass and ration of kinetic energies of scattered particle to incident particle energy. Because this is similar problem that is in textbook (figure 7.6.1.), we can make use of figures in textbook; if we look at figure 7.6.2., we can recognize following relation
where is scattering speed of particle of mass in the center of mass system, is scattering speed of particle of mass in lab system and is speed of center of mass. Then we have from equation (2)
where ( is scattering angle of mass ). With the use of expression (3) and definition of r we have
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