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Past exam of the physics course of the year 4 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2013 Paper 1 Section A A7 Solution by
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Relativistic synchrotron radiation is concentrated within angle of order around the instantaneous velocity, tangent to the circular orbit. The narrow instantaneous beam sweeps around with the particle; over a whole orbit the emission forms a thin fan about the orbital plane. With , . Since , the supplied characteristic-frequency scaling givesThis is subnanometer X-ray radiation, with a beaming angle of order . The conventional critical-angular-frequency normalization gives instead; the question's order-of-magnitude frequency prescription does not distinguish these order-one factors.
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