In a Mass Spectrometer,a Variety of Singly Ionized Atomic Nuclei

question 42

Multiple Choice

In a mass spectrometer,a variety of singly ionized atomic nuclei are directed into a magnetic field where they are deflected and strike a detecting screen.The particles to undergo the greatest deflection are the particles with the

• A)least mass.
• B)greatest mass.
• C)same for all

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Definitions:

Random Variable

A variable that takes on different values randomly, each with a particular probability associated with it.

Standard Deviations

Measures of dispersion that indicate how spread out the values in a data set are around the mean.

Normal Distribution

A symmetric bell-shaped distribution that is widely used in statistics to represent the real-valued random variables with unknown distributions.

Standardized Form

A form of representation that allows different data sets or equations to be compared or analyzed using a common standard.