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1) An electron leaves the cathode and is accelerated by a 700V potential difference.

The cathode and potential difference is sometimes called and electron gun.
a. What energy does it have when it leaves the gun?
b. How fast is it moving?
c. If the cathode and the anode were farther apart would it have come out
with a different speed?
2) It enters the space between the deflecting plates (4cm long, 3mm apart and 20V)
and comes out the other end having deflected a distance d. Treat this as a
projectile problem.
a. Find the time that the electron is between the plates.
b. Find the transverse acceleration. This is the acceleration perpendicular to
the initial velocity (from plate to plate).
c. Find d
d. Find the final transverse velocity.
3) Once out of the deflecting plates the electron travels in a straight line. The screen
is 10cm from the deflecting plates.
a. Find the deflection as a result of the movement of the electron from the
deflecting plates to the screen.
b. Find the total deflection

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Cathode Ray Tube Practice Problems

1. Electrons are accelerated from rest through a potential of 500 V in an electron “gun.”
Assuming that all of the work done on the electrons produces kinetic energy, what is
the speed of the electrons leaving the gun? (1.33 x 107m/s)
(me = 9.1 x 10-31 kg, qe = 1.6 x 10-19 C)

2. Electrons which have been accelerated through a potential of 500 V pass between two
pass parallel plates that are 6.0 cm long and 2.0 cm apart, with a potential of 150 V
between them.

(a) What is the energy of the electrons leaving the gun? (8.0 x 10-17J)
(b) What is the velocity of the electrons down the tube if all of their energy is in the
form of kinetic energy? ( 1.33 x 10 7 m/s)
(c) What is the electric field strength between the plates? ( 7500v/m or 7500 N/C )
(d) What is the tranverse force on the electrons between the plates? (1.2 x 10 -15 N )
(e) What is the tranverse acceleration of the electrons? (1.3 x 10 15 m/s2)
(f) What is the time required for the electrons to pass through the region between the
deflection plates? ( 4.6 x 10 -9 s )
(g) What is the deflection of the electrons while passing through the region between
the plates? ( 1.4 x 10 –2 m )
(h) What is the tranverse velocity of the electrons after leaving the region between the
plates? ( 5.95 x 10 6 m/s)
(i) The screen is 20 cm beyond the end of the charged plates. What time is required
for the electrons to travel this distance? ( 1.5 x 10 -8 s )
(j) What is the size of the deflection seen on the screen? ( 0.103 m )

3. Do Question 2 for protons instead of electrons

(mp = 1.7 x 10-27 kg, qp = 1.6 x 10-19 C).

The universe is not to be narrowed down to the limits of our understanding, but our
understanding must be stretched and enlarged to take in the image of the universe
as it is discovered.
Sir Francis Bacon

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