Kinetic energy of a proton is equal to energy $E$ of a photon. Let ' $\lambda_1$ ' be the de-Broglie…
Kinetic energy of a proton is equal to energy $E$ of a photon. Let ' $\lambda_1$ ' be the de-Broglie wavelength of proton and ' $\lambda_2$ ' be the wavelength of photon. If $\left(\frac{\lambda_1}{\lambda_2}\right) \propto \mathrm{E}^{\mathrm{n}}$ then the value of ' $n$ ' is
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Solution
If $E$ is the kinetic energy of the proton, then $E=\frac{p^2}{2 m}$
where p is the momentum and m is the mass of proton
$\therefore \quad \mathrm{p}=\sqrt{2 \mathrm{mE}}$
$\therefore \quad \lambda_1=\frac{\mathrm{h}}{\mathrm{p}}=\frac{\mathrm{h}}{\sqrt{2 \mathrm{mE}}}$
Similarly, for a photon, $E=\frac{h c}{\lambda_2}$
$\begin{aligned} & \therefore \quad \dot{\lambda}_2=\frac{h c}{E} \\ & \therefore \quad \frac{\lambda_1}{\lambda_2}=\frac{h}{\sqrt{2 m E}} \times \frac{E}{h c}=\frac{1}{c} \sqrt{\frac{E}{2 m}} \\ & \therefore \quad \\ & \therefore \quad \frac{\lambda_1}{\lambda_2} \propto E^{1 / 2} \Rightarrow n=0.5\end{aligned}$