The amount of meat in prehistoric diets can be determined bymeasuring the ratio of the isotopes nitrogen-15 to nitrogen-14 inbone from human remains. Carnivores concentrate 15N, so this ratiotells archaeologists how much meat was consumed by ancient people.Suppose you use a velocity selector to obtain singly-ionized(missing one electron) nitrogen atoms of speed 8.95 km/s and bendthem along a semicircle within a uniform magnetic field. The 14Natoms travel along a semicircle with a diameter of 27.5 cm . Themeasured masses of these isotopes are 2.32×10−26 kg (14N) and2.49×10−26 kg for (15N). Find the separation of the 14N and 15Nisotopes at the detector.
