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An electron is slowed down quickly from 107 m/s to 0.5 * 107 m/s, and a single photon is created in the process. Identify the radiation process (eg. Compton, positron emission, etc.) and compute the frequency and wavelength of the emitted photon.
As electron is a charged particle and it is slowed down from
 to 
, so, it is decelerated.
And we know that when a charged particle is slowed down by
deceleration it radiates energy in the form of photons by
Bremsstrahlung or in other words, braking radiation.
The change in the energy is
   
  
  
And as 
 and the mass of the electron is 
, so, the change in the energy is
  
  
And from energy conservation, this energy is converted to the
created photon energy. So, the frequency of the photon is
   
  
And the wavelength of the emitted photon is
  