//Chapter 2, Example 2.4, Page 39 clc clear //Recoil Kinetic Energy m1 = 9.109*10**-31 // kg c1 = 2.998*10**8 // m/s E = 3 //Mev mc2 = (m1*c1*c1)/(1.602*10**-13) // converting to MeV E1 = 1/((1/E)+(1/mc2)*(1-cos(%pi/4))) printf("\n Recoil kinetic energy = %f MeV",E1); //Answers may vary due to round off error