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33.3 Exercise 17

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When an electron and positron collide at the SLAC facility, they each have 50.0 GeV kinetic energies. What is the total collision energy available, taking into account the annihilation energy? Note that the annihilation energy is insignificant, because the electrons are highly relativistic.

OpenStax College Physics 2e, 33.3 Accelerators Create Matter from Energy, exercise 17

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