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An alpha- particle of mass suffers dimensional elastic collision with a nucleus at rest of unknown mass. It is scattered directly backwards losing of its initial kinetic energy. The mass of the nucleus is
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From momentum conservation,
Using kinetic energy conservation,
As it retain , Hence,
From ,
On solving, we get
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