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Date November 2020 Marks available [Maximum mark: 2] Reference code 20N.3.HL.TZ0.c
Level HL Paper 3 Time zone TZ0
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20N.3.HL.TZ0.c

A deuterium H12 nucleus (rest mass 2.014 u) is accelerated by a potential difference of 2.700×102 MV.

In relativistic reactions the mass of the products may be less than the mass of the reactants. Suggest what happens to the missing mass.

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is converted to energy ✓

as kinetic energy of the products ✓

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