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A globular cluster at its farthest point from the galactic center is at a distance of 104 pc. What is its period of galactic revolution?
Light of wavelength 696 nm is incident on a single slit. The central bright fringe is 2.63 cm wide on a flat screen that is 87.3 cm from the slit. What would be the width of the central bright frin
Find the total energy, the heat capacity, and the entropy of a system of these particles. Sketch these properties as a function of the temperature and compare them with the corresponding properties
What is the speed of the object after it has fallen 94 cm after being released from rest? Use energy considerations.
A container of volume 1*10^-5 cm^3 holds three molecules of gas b, which we label b1, b2, and b3. In 1 second, there are two b1-b2 collisons, two b1-b3 collisions, and two b2-b3 collisons.
Dry air had a CO2 mole fraction of 0.00038 in 2007 (compared with 0.00032 in 1965). Calculate the total mass of CO2 that strikes 1 cm^2 of one side of a green leaf in 1 s in dry air at 25oC and 1.0
Consider samples of pure H2(g) and pure O2(g), each at 300 K and 1 atm. For each of the following properties state which gas has the greater value
Neglecting the variation of T with altitude and using the average surface temperature of 290K and the number average molecular weight of 29 for air, calculate the atmospheric pressure at the top of
For N2 at 25oC and 1.00 atm calculate the number of collisions per second made by one molecule; the number of collisions per second per cubic centimeter; compare these values to N2 at 25oC and 1.0*
Solve the Schrodinger equation to derive the wave function for x < 0 and x >= 0. Express the solution in terms of a single unknown constant.
Find an expression for the efficiency if the working fluid is an ideal gas with Cv its constant volume heat capacity.
The lens of a slide projector with a focal length of 100.0 mm projects a slide onto a screen that is 14.0 m away. How far from the lens must the slide be placed to form a sharp image on the screen?
What is the largest value of the fundamental unit of charge that is consistent with your measurements?
Two asteroids head straight for Earth from the same direction. Their speeds relative to Earth are 0.79c for asteroid 1 and 0.60c for asteroid 2. Find the speed of asteroid 1 relative to asteroid 2.
(a) Find the wavelength of the sound upwind of the siren. (b) Find the wavelength of the sound downwind of the siren.
A 86-mW vertically polarized laser beam passes through a polarizer whose polarizing angle is 25° from the horizontal. What is the power of the laser beam when it emerges from the polarizer?
Two polarizers are out of alignment by 30°. If light of intensity 7.57 W/m2 and initially polarized halfway between the polarizing angles of the two filters passes through the two filters, what
Every day our Earth receives 1.55×1022 J energy from the Sun. If we were able to use 0.75 percent of this energy to accelerate spaceships, then how many missions would be possible in one year?
Light of wavelength 671 nm is incident on a single slit. The central bright fringe is 2.60 cm wide on a flat screen that is 77.4 cm from the slit. What would be the width of the central bright fri
A thin layer of oil of refractive index 1.18 is spread on the surface of water (n=1.33). If the thickness of the oil is 260 nm, then what is the wavelength of visible light in air that will be pre
The interference pattern shows a peak at the center of the screen (m=0) and then alternating minima and maxima.What is the path length difference between the waves at the first maximum (m=1) on the sc
One bright summer day a swimmer is floating with her head just above the surface of a large lake where the water has index of refraction n = 1.38. Nearby she sees a tall wooden post emerging from t
The atomic ratio of Uranium-235 to Uranium-238 in current uranium is 1:139. What was the ratio of these two isotopes when the natural reactor went critical. Show your work.
Calculate and compare the electron densities of a piece of aluminum 1 cm thick and a piece of iron of the same density thickness. Show your work & please be sure to compare.
Assuming the specific heat of the body is the same as water, calculate the temperature rise due to a total body dose of 10 Gy (1000 rad). Show your work.