Canadian nuclear reactors use heavy watermoderators in


Canadian nuclear reactors use heavy watermoderators in which elastic collisions occur between the neutrons and deuterons of mass2.0 u.

Part A) What is the speed of a neutron, expressed as a fraction of its original speed, after a head-on, elastic collision with a deuteron which is initially at rest?

Part B) What is its kinetic energy, expressed as a fraction of its original kinetic energy?

Part C) How many such successive collisions will reduce the speed of a neutron to 1/1.77×105 of its original value?

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