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Check that the sum of your answers to parts (a) and (b) equals the difference in the total energies in the two circular orbits.
Compare it to the distance to Alpha Centauri, the nearest star to the sun, which is 4.3 light-years distant. (r / r_alpha) =?
It weighs 1.47 kg and orbits the Earth every 134.2 minutes. At its closest distance it is 654 km from the surface of the Earth.
Explain why it takes more fuel for a spacecraft to travel to the Moon from Earth than it takes to travel from the Moon to the Earth.
Determine if the following sets of quantum numbers are permissible for an electron in a hydrogen atom. If it is permissible give the orbital type.
Solve for the radii of permitted orbits and calculate the permitted energies. Check that they conform to Bohr's results. as veri?ed by experiments.
The work function of an element is the energy required to remove an electron from the surface of the solid. The work function for cadmium is 378.2 kJ/mol
Which has the greater wavelength, blue light or red light?
Calculate the distance over which the front end of the car must be designed to collapse if a crash brings the car to rest from 101 km/h.
The lowest energy visible light photon is the longest wavelength at the red end of the light spectrum. How many times greater is this energy
With the boat initially at rest, the two people, who have been sitting at opposite ends of the boat, 3.0 m apart from each other, exchange seats.
In an inelastic collision, is the final total momentum more than the initial momentum, less than the initial momentum or is it the same as the initial momentum?
If a vehicle is of length L on the average, what is the average spacing between vehicles at the above traffic density?
Light of wavelength 616 nm (in vacuum) is incident perpendicularly on a soap film (assume n = 1.36) suspended in the air.
If a rigid homogeneous rectangular crate of mass m and height h slides on its base of w, while traveling a velocity v, it stikes a low, immovable curb.
Define strength and explain why strength varies through a joints range of motion?
What is the angular momentum of the coin about a point .1 m from the line of motion?
A turn-table on a frictionless vertical axis has a radius of 1.5 m and a moment of rotational inertia of 150 kgm^2.
What quantities are conserved in each case? Find the final speed V of the mass when it hits the post for each case?
A particle of mass 50g moves under an attractive central force of magnitude 4r^3 dynes. The angular momentum is equal to l,000 g*cm/s.
On a horizontal, frictionless table, a mass M is attached to the free end of a spring with the other end fixed. Another mass, m, moving at velocity S.
A beam of electrons (m=9.11 x 10 (-31) negative thirty first power has an average speed of 1.3 x 10^8 (eigth power) m*s (-1) s to to the negative first power
A figure skater during her finale can increase her rotation rate from an initial rate of 1.12 revolutions every 1.88 s to a final rate of 3.15 revolutions.
A uniform cylinder, mass M= 12 kg, radius R= .36 m, is initially rotating about a vertical axis through its center at angular velocity wo= 6.6 rad/sec.
A block with a hole through the center can slide in and out along the rod. Initially, a small piece of wax holds the block 10.0 cm from the pivot.