Electron acceleration
What Electron acceleration means in Physics A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definitions of Electron acceleration
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Reference: OCR
The role of the high voltage between cathode and anode, which accelerates the electrons towards the anode.
The anode is the positive electrode that attracts and accelerates the electrons released by the cathode.
Topics that use Electron acceleration
- Nuclear fission and fusion (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Alpha and beta decay
- Barium
- Binding energy
- Binding energy per nucleon against nucleon number curve
- Chain reactions
- Characteristic X-rays from shell transitions
- Compton effect
- Computer reconstruction of attenuation data
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