Tuesday, July 12, 2011

What distance will it travel before desintegrating?

Pions are created in the upper layers of the Earth's atmosphere when atomic nuclei are bombarded by cosmic rays. When at rest the pions have an average lifetime of 2.6e^-8's before disintegrating . If a pion is created with a speed of 0.932c, what distance will it travel on the average in the Earth's atmosphere, before disintegrating?

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