Answer to Question #65020 in Physics for Helen

Question

Heavy ion radiotherapy is a relatively new cancer treatment that uses high energy
beams of ions to destroy cancer cells. Carbon nuclei having a mass of 1.99 × 10−26 kg
and a charge of +6e (corresponding to the most common isotope of carbon, with six
protons and six neutrons) are accelerated at 2.60×102 m/s2
. Determine the magnitude
of the electric field required to produce this acceleration, assuming that this field is
constant over the region where the ions are being accelerated.