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Which device that Szilard conceived, accelerated charged particles in a straight line?

  • Circular Accelerator

  • QED Oscillator

  • Linear accelerator

  • Sinusoidal Accelerator

Answer

A linear accelerator is a particle accelerator that accelerates charged particles in a straight line. The most common design of linear accelerator is a type called the radio frequency quadrupole accelerator, which uses electric fields generated by radio frequency alternating current to accelerate particles.
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