UNIVERSITY

OF THE PHILIPPINES – MANILA Physics 108

2nd Semester AY 2021-2022 Modern Physics

JOCSON, MARIELLA ANN M.

Members: CHAVEZ, MARIA CRISTINA
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Year and 2nd Year - BS Applied Physics

Date Submitted:
Program: PHYSICS 108

Assignment #1
Answer the following completely:

1. (5 pts.) Under what conditions can you apply the law of conservation of energy? Conservation of
linear momentum? Conservation of angular momentum?
The law of conservation of energy from the word “conserve” meaning something which
doesn't change. This law tells us that the energy can neither be created nor destroyed, it can only be
transformed from one form of energy to another. This law can be applied to a system being conserved
as well as isolated systems that always have the same amount of energy, free from the added external
forces from the outside. On the other hand, Conservation of Linear Momentum reveals that the
total momentum of a system remains constant. This law can be applied as objects interact with each
other for example with the collision of two cars, mass may be transferred from one another but the
object gains remains in balance by the loss of the mass of the other. Finally, Conservation of
Angular Momentum exposes the fact that the angular momentum is conserved when the net external
torque is zero as well. This law provides a measurement to an object that keeps on spinning.

2. (10 pts.) Observer A, who is at rest in the laboratory, is studying a particle that is moving through the
laboratory at a speed of 0.624c and determines its lifetime to be 159 ns.
(a) Observer A places markers in the laboratory at the locations where the particle is produced and
where it decays. How far apart are those markers in the laboratory?

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(b) Observer B, who is traveling parallel to the particle at a speed of 0.624c, observes the particle to be
at rest and measures its lifetime to be 124 ns. According to B, how far apart are the two markers in the
laboratory?

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3. (10 pts.) A gas cylinder contains argon atoms (m = 40.0 ). The temperature is increased from 3 K
(20◦C) to 373K (100◦C).
(a) What is the change in the average kinetic energy per atom?

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(b) The container is resting on a table in the Earth’s gravity. Find the change in the vertical position of the
container that produces the same change in the average energy per atom found in part (a).

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4. Natural Units.
(5 pts.) (a) The mass of the Z boson is mZ= 91 GeV in natural units (with c= ħ= 1). What is this in S.I.
units (kilograms)?

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(5 pts.) (b) The radius of a gold nucleus is 0.04 MeV−1in natural units (with c= ħ= 1). What is this in
S.I. units (meters)?

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