The actual size of a gold nucleus is approximately 7 fm. knowing this, calculate the kinetic energy (ke, or kea, however you may choose to label the measurement) that an alpha particle would need to just touch the outside of the nucleus. does this seem like a reasonable number?
hint - the lhc is currently the most powerful particle accelerator on earth, and i? t operates at 13 tev (tev = 1012 ev).

Atruck going 15 kmôź°€h has a head-on collision with a small car going 30 kmôź°€h. which statement best describes the situation? (a) the truck has the greater change of momentum because it has the greater mass. (b) the car has the greater change of momentum because it has the greater speed. (c) neither the car nor the truck changes its momentum in the collision because momentum is conserved. (d) they both have the same change in magnitude of momentum because momentum is conserved. (e) none of the above is necessarily true. 2. a small boat coasts at constant speed under a bridge. a heavy sack of sand is dropped from the bridge onto the boat. the speed of the boat (a) increases. (b) decreases. (c) does not change. (d) without knowing the mass of the boat and the sand, we can’t tell.