Consider a Compton scattering experiment with a given incident photon energy. Show that the attatched equation is the maximum kinetic energy for the scattered electrons. (Hint: This energy is the Compton edge, and can be detected in radioactive decay experiments) The image shows a mathematical expression:\[\frac{hf}{1 + \frac{mc^2}{2hf}}\]This expression appears to be related to physics, potentially involving energy, frequency, and mass. Here, \( h \) is likely Planck's constant, and \( f \) represents frequency. The term \( mc^2 \) refers to the energy-mass equivalence, commonly known from Einstein's theory of relativity, where \( m \) is mass and \( c \) is the speed of light. The expression in the denominator adjusts the overall value based on these variables.It might represent a specific formula in the context of quantum mechanics or relativistic physics.

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