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2. An incident energetic photon is scattered by a free electron initially at rest. If the scattering angle of the scattered photon is 90∘ with respect to the incident photon propagation direction and the scattered photon energy is 0.100MeV,
determine the wavelength and momentum of the scattered photon and the incident photon, respectively.
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