AP Physics 2
15.8 Types of Radioactive Decay
When a stationary radioactive nucleus undergoes beta-minus decay, a neutron converts into a proton, emitting an electron. Experiments show that emitted electrons possess a continuous spectrum of kinetic energies up to a maximum value \(Q\), rather than a single fixed kinetic energy. Which of the following explanations best accounts for this continuous energy spectrum while satisfying the laws of conservation of energy and linear momentum?
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