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The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at the Brookhaven National Laboratory collide...

The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at the Brookhaven National Laboratory collides gold ions onto other gold ions head on. The energy of the gold ions is 100 GeV per nucleon. (a) What is the center-of-mass energy of the collision? (b) What is the speed of the gold ions as a fraction of the speed of light?

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