Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-physics-a-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2016/paper-1/section-a/2/solution

Nonrelativistic acceleration from rest gives and . The observed deflection is the angle between incident and diffracted beams, , so Bragg's law at first order gives
Here . The numerical evaluation uses the externally documented CODATA 2014 values , and ; it does not assert which rounded constants were in the exam's handbook. Relativistic corrections at this voltage are negligible at the precision of the angle.[ref]

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