The largest cyclotron in the United States is the Tevatronat Fermilab, near Chicago, Illinois. It is called

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The largest cyclotron in the United States is the Tevatronat Fermilab, near Chicago, Illinois. It is called a Tevatron because it can accelerate particles to energies in the TeV range: 1 tera-eV = 1012 eV. Its circumference is 6.4 km, and it currently can produce a maximum energy of 2.0 TeV. In a certain medical experiment, protons will be accelerated to energies of 1.25 MeV and aimed at a tumor to destroy its cells.

(a) How fast are these protons moving when they hit the tumor? 

(b) How strong must the magnetic field be to bend the pro-tons in the circle indicated?

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University Physics with Modern Physics

ISBN: 978-0321696861

13th edition

Authors: Hugh D. Young, Roger A. Freedman, A. Lewis Ford

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