# PPT Slide

- ## First constructed by R. Wideroe in 1928 ---

## 50 keV

- ## Idea: replace single wide gap of large potential difference with succession of many smaller gaps having smaller potential differences

- ## Thus: acceleration takes place across a sequence of a large number of small steps (rather than one large step)

Radio-Frequency Accelerator:

The LINAC

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