Question 4.Plutonium-239, recovered from dismantled atomic weapons, undergoes simultaneous alphaand gamma decay. Sensors on the outside of containers used to store plutonium-239 canindicate how much radioactive material is contained by monitoring the gamma rays emittedby the material.A particular container holds 80.0 kg of plutonium waste. The half-life of plutonium-239is 2.4 x 10¹ years. When a plutonium-239 atom decays, it emits a gamma photon thathas 1.8 × 10³ eV of energy and an alpha particle that has a characteristic speed of1.58 x 107 m/s.Which of the following diagrams shows the orientation of the momenta of thealpha particle and the gamma photon that must result in the maximum impulse ofthe plutonium-239 nucleus?C.7Question 5.as a massB.D.Y10-²ouo srifto youlov svi sm

Plutonium-239, recovered from dismantled atomic weapons, undergoes simultaneous alpha and gamma decay. Sensors on the outside of containers used to store plutonium-239 can indicate how much radioactive material is contained by monitoring the gamma rays emitted by the material. A particular container holds 80.0 kg of plutonium waste. The half-life of plutonium-239 is 2.4 x 10 years. When a plutonium-239 atom decays, it emits a gamma photon that has 1.8 x 10% eV of energy and an alpha particle that has a characteristic speed of 1.58 x 107 m/s. Which of the following diagrams shows the orientation of the momenta of the alpha particle and the gamma photon that must result in the maximum impulse of the plutonium-239 nucleus? A. C. Y Y B. D. Y

Plutonium-239, recovered from dismantled atomic weapons, undergoes simultaneous alpha and gamma decay. Sensors on the outside of containers used to store plutonium-239 can indicate how much radioactive material is contained by monitoring the gamma rays emitted by the material. A particular container holds 80.0 kg of plutonium waste. The half-life of plutonium-239 is 2.4 x 10 years. When a plutonium-239 atom decays, it emits a gamma photon that has 1.8 x 10% eV of energy and an alpha particle that has a characteristic speed of 1.58 x 107 m/s. Which of the following diagrams shows the orientation of the momenta of the alpha particle and the gamma photon that must result in the maximum impulse of the plutonium-239 nucleus? A. C. Y Y B. D. Y

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