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Electron Gun

The electron gun in a television tube is used to accelerate electrons from rest to 3.0 x 107^7 m/s within a distance of 2.0 cm. What electric field is required? Should the electric field be in the same or opposite direction of the electrons motion?

Posted by Fiona Cunningham a year ago

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