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A hydrogen atom in an excited state emits a photon of wavelength 95 nm. Select the initial and final states of the hydrogen atom.
What is the wavelength (in meters) of electromagnetic radiation broadcast by an FM radio station with a frequency of 106.1 MHz?
Apply the thermodynamic relation TdS =dE+pdV to a photon gas. Here one can write that E = Vu where u(T), the mean energy density of the radiation field
Considering Yukawa's hypothesis that the nuclear force should be due to the exchange of massive particles (that he called mesons)
An electron and a proton are each accelerated through a potential difference of 10.0 million volts.
A proton (m=1.67*10^-27kg) is being accelerated along a straight line at 3.6*10^5 m/sec ^2 in a machine. If the proton has an inital speed of 2.4*10^7 m/sec:
The wavelength spectrum of the radiation energy emitted from a system in thermal equilibrium is observes to have a maximum value
A singly ionized helium atom (He+) has only one electron in orbit about the nucleus. What is the radius of the ion when it is in the n = 3 excited state?
What is the energy of the photon that is emitted when the state of an electron changes from n=4 to n=2 in a hydrogen atom? (R=3.29 x 10^15 Hz).
Violet light has a wavelength of about 410 nm. What is its frequency? Calculate the energy of one photon of violet light. What is the energy of 1.0
There is a gas cylinder filled with oxygen in front of you. It is 1.5 meters tall, and 30 centimeters in diameter
In a television picture tube, electrons strike the screen after being accelerated from rest through a potential difference of 25000 V.
What is meant by the 'fine structure constant'? Explain what the fine structure constant tells us about the relative probability of the formation of a three par
Would you explain how to solve the following problem to the specified answer of 0.199? Please offer as much explanation as possible.
Choose something to observe in your environment e.g., sugar dissolving in Kool Aid, pasta cooking, alka seltzer dissolving in water, vinegar reacting
The text of the Encyclopaedia Britannica is about 44 million words. For a sample of about 2000 words, the average word length was 5.1 characters per word.
How do you test lead levels in water to give a quantitate result, not just whether lead is preasent or not? Where do you get lead testing equipment
Dry air will break down and generate a spark if the electric field exceeds about 2.95 x 10^6 N/C. How much charge could be packed onto a green pea
The electric field strength 4.10 cm from a very wide charged electrode is 4000 N/C. What is the charge (in nC) on a 2.00-cm- diameter circular segment
A helium-neon laser gives off red light with a wavelength of 632.8 nm (nanometers). What is the energy of the photons coming out of the laser?
What is the difference between an emission spectrum and an absorption spectrum?
Consider n moles of a Van der Waals gas. Show that (dU/dV)_T = n^2a/V^2. Hence show that the internal energy is U.
For the following processes, state whether the driving force is the first or second law of thermodynamics.
In the table below is the thermodynamic data for ammonia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonia_%28data_page%29) use this data to solve the following problems
A sample of an ideal gas has the following initial conditions V=15L, T=250K and P=1atm. It is compressed isothermally until the change in entropy is -5J/K