The lifetime of a muon is 2.20 ?s. If you measured its mass to be 105.7 MeV/c2, what would be the minimum (Heisenberg) uncertainty in this value? Sketch the situation, defining all of your variables
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The lifetime of a muon is 2.20 ?s. If you measured its mass to be 105.7 MeV/c2, what would be the minimum (Heisenberg) uncertainty in this value?
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