Enriching uranium with a mass spectrometer
Electricity and Magnetism
Level
2
A rudimentary way to enrich uranium for use in nuclear energy or weaponry is to pass an ionized beam of vaporized uranium through a modified mass spectrometer known as a calutron. Assuming an electronmagnet that produces a magnetic field of magnitude and a voltage oven rated at a potential difference of are available, what is the radius of the path traveled by the uranium-235 being isolated? Assume the beam of vaporized nitrogen is ionized to a charge of
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July Thomas