Special Relativity, Stopping Power, Speed Of Light, Medical Physics, Physics.
speed of light. Section 15.11 Problem 41 ½. A charged particle’s kinetic energy, T, is related to its mass M and its speed, v. We often express speed in terms of the parameter β = v/c, where c is the speed of light. (a) At low energies (T ≪ Mc^2, or equivalently β ≪ 1), show that Eq. 15.47 is