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a) Doubly ionized Cesium ions are accelerated to 50 km/s in an ion rocket engine. What...

a) Doubly ionized Cesium ions are accelerated to 50 km/s in an ion rocket engine. What accelerating voltage is needed assuming they start from rest? Each ionization removes one electronic charge. **(Mass is 2.225x10-25; Answer should be around 870V)

b) A doubly ionized atom (charge = + 2e, where e = 1.602 X 10-19 C) falls in a field that lowers its potential energy by 2.7 X 10-16 J. Through what voltage does it fall? If the ion has mass equal to 17 proton masses and falls from rest, what speed will it acquire?

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Here we apply definition of electric potential energy and kinetic energy as well as mechanical energy conservation.

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