nice find, I knew it was something like that, btw can i have your source ? if you don't mind I would like to further read on this subject because my understanding has now changed, as i thought that electrons could change speed
(wikipedia)
Motion and energy
According to Einstein's theory of special relativity, as an electron's speed approaches the speed of light, from an observer's point of view its relativistic mass increases, thereby making it more and more difficult to accelerate it from within the observer's frame of reference. The speed of an electron can approach, but never reach, the speed of light in a vacuum, c. However, when relativistic electrons—that is, electrons moving at a speed close to c—are injected into a dielectric medium such as water, where the local speed of light is significantly less than c, the electrons temporarily travel faster than light in the medium. As they interact with the medium, they generate a faint light called Cherenkov radiation.[124]
The plot starts at zero and curves sharply upward toward the right
Lorentz factor as a function of velocity. It starts at value 1 and goes to infinity as v approaches c.
The effects of special relativity are based on a quantity known as the Lorentz factor, defined as \scriptstyle\gamma=1/ \sqrt{ 1-{v^2}/{c^2} } where v is the speed of the particle. The kinetic energy Ke of an electron moving with velocity v is:
\displaystyle K_{\mathrm{e}} = (\gamma - 1)m_{\mathrm{e}} c^2,
where me is the mass of electron. For example, the Stanford linear accelerator can accelerate an electron to roughly 51 GeV.[125] Since an electron behaves as a wave, at a given velocity it has a characteristic de Broglie wavelength. This is given by λe = h/p where h is the Planck constant and p is the momentum.[48] For the 51 GeV electron above, the wavelength is about 2.4×10−17 m, small enough to explore structures well below the size of an atomic nucleus.[126]
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How fast do electrons move?
As fast as you can get them going! Well not quite. One of the facts of life discovered in the 20th century is that the speed of light (300,000 kilometers per second) is the ultimate speed limit. As you add energy to the electron, it will go faster, but as you get it to go close to the speed of light, you find that you have to add even more energy just to bump it a bit faster. For example, with just over 220,000 eV (which stands for a convenient unit of energy called the "electron-volt"), you can get the electron up to 90% of the speed of light. But to get it to 99.9% (just another 9.9%), you need a total of over 11 million eV! One way of looking at this is that the electron gets "heavier" (more massive) as it goes ever faster. So it's harder to push it faster. At Jefferson Lab, a typical energy for the electrons in the beam is 4 GeV which is 4 billion eV. That means the electron is traveling at 99.9999992% of the speed of light. Close but still not 100%.
You may wonder how fast the electrons are whizzing around in the atoms around you. A good example (and the most simple to calculate) is the hydrogen atom which is in all our water. A calculation shows that the electron is traveling at about 2,200 kilometers per second. That's less than 1% of the speed of light, but it's fast enough to get it around the Earth in just over 18 seconds. Read up on what happens when nothing can go faster than the speed of light.
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even with above debate i still agree with the MAIN point the sensor will work under load or *** you put it, 'When it needs to'
-5ghz
Author:
Carl Zorn, Detector Scientist (Other answers by Carl Zorn)
