College Physics 10th Edition by Raymond Serway,Chris Vuille

Exercise 4

(a) Show that the kinetic energy of a nonrelativistic particle can be written in terms of its momentum as KE = p 2 /2 m. (b) Use the results of part (a) to find the minimum kinetic energy of a proton confined within a nucleus having a diameter of 1.0 × 10 15 m.