Решение на момент правки #19067 от , автор jzmicer. Это не текущая версия.

I confused the task number with 7.3.11. I'll post this solution tomorrow.

Statement

A free electron is subjected to an electric field of strength starting from time . Find the maximum and average velocity of the electron.

Solution

The initial velocity is zero, therefore

Newton's second law:

Let , then from (2) into (1):

Taking into account the range of the cosine, the expression in parentheses can take values . One must be careful here: remember that we need the maximum magnitude of the velocity, and that can be either positive or negative. Finally, analysing (3), we obtain

It is clear that the velocity changes periodically with period . Then the average value is

I will allow myself to skip the calculation of the integral – remembering that the integral of cosine over its period is zero, this can be done very quickly. Eventually, taking the modulus, we get:

There is a typo in the author's answer.

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