1 / 5

Understanding Electron Energy in Relativity: Equations and Errors

Learn about electron energy in relativity, rest energy calculations, kinetic energy equations, and error percentages. Understand the relationship between total energy, rest energy, and kinetic energy. Improve your knowledge of fundamental physics concepts.

armand-hudson
Télécharger la présentation

Understanding Electron Energy in Relativity: Equations and Errors

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Energy • An electron with no potential energy or kinetic energy has ____ total energy. • zero • positive • negative

  2. How fast? • A particle with mass ___ travel at speed c. • Light ___ travel at speed c. • can, can • cannot, cannot • can, cannot • cannot, can

  3. Energies • Which of the following is true? • A particle’s rest energy cannot be greater than its kinetic energy. • A particle’s kinetic energy cannot be greater than its rest energy. • A particle’s kinetic energy cannot be greater than its total energy. • More than one of the above is true.

  4. PAL Week 6 Wednesday In SI units, the mass of an electron is 9.11X10-31 kg. In relativity-friendly units, the mass of an electron is 511 keV/c2. 1. An electron has speed 15,000 km/s (which is 5% of c). • Find its rest energy in J. 8.199e-14 J • Find its total energy in J. 8.209e-14 • Find its kinetic energy in J, using the relativistic equation. 1.0268e-16 • Find the % error incurred due to using the non-relativistic kinetic energy equation. 0.19%

  5. 2. An electron has speed 0.4 c. • Find its rest energy in eV. 511 keV • Find its total energy in eV. 557.5 keV • Find its kinetic energy in eV , using the relativistic equation.46.5 keV • Find the % error due to using the non-relativistic kinetic energy equation. 12%

More Related