X-ray Photon Electron Collision · PhysicsBowl 2018 #13
Physics · modern-physics
Problem
An x-ray photon collides with a free electron, and the photon is scattered. During the collision:
(A) there is conservation of momentum but not energy
(B) there is conservation of neither momentum nor energy
(C) there is conservation of energy but not momentum
(D) there is conservation of both momentum and energy
(E) impossible to predict if momentum and energy are conserved without additional information