Daylight gets reflected from a freestanding soap film and appears reddish (wavelength = 660 nm) when observed from a direction perpendicular to the film surface. Assume a refractive index of n = 1.33.
(a) What are the two smallest possible thicknesses of the soap
film which fit to your observation?
(b) Which typical wavelength and related color do you observe when
watching the film from an angle of 50° (relative to the surface
normal) using the smallest possible thickness of the film from
(a)?
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what is the difference between oil,mercury and red water on barometer?
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Moon effect. Some people believe that the Moon controls their activities. If the Moon moves from being directly on the opposite side of Earth from you to being directly overhead, by what percentage does (a) the Moon's gravitational pull on you increase and (b) your weight (as measured on a scale) decrease? Assume that the Earth–Moon (center-to-center) distance is 3.82 × 108 m, Earth's radius is 6.37 × 106 m, Moon's mass is 7.36 × 1022 kg, and Earth's mass is 5.98 × 1024 kg.
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Problem 3
Police car is chasing a speed limit violator car with a Doppler radar installed on the roof. Suppose the speed of sound is 300 m/s. When the police car has a velocity v = 10 m/s in the lab frame, it sends a 30 kHz frequency signal.
3.1 If the violator is moving at 20 m/s, what would be the frequency of the radar signal if received by an instrument installed at the violator car?
3.2 If the police car detected a returning signal at 29 kHz (after bouncing off the violator’s car), what is the velocity of the violator? Describe the situation in words.
Suppose we took a parallel plates capacitor: the plates have area 1 by 1 meter and they are separated by 1 cm with vacuum.
3.3 What would be the force between the two plates if we deposit a charge of 1 Coulomb.
3.4 How will the force in 3.3 change if we fill the space between the capacitors plate with a silicon, which has a dielectric relative permittivity of 10.
Suppose we have made a different capacitor, which consists of two oppositely charged small spheres with a radius R separated by a distance D. Assume R << D and the charge is distributed uniformly on the surface of the sphere. Consider an X-axis originating in the center of the first sphere and going through the center of the second sphere. The two centers are at X = 0 and X =D.
3.5 Sketch the electric field between X = R and X = D-R.
3.6 If once the sphere is given a charge Q and the other –Q, calculate the voltage difference between the two spheres.
3.7 Calculate the capacitance and express it via R, D, and epsilon_0.
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An inertial reference system S' moves in the x-direction at speed υ relative to reference system S. The axis x’ slides along the x axis. Considering a uniform electric field in the region between the plates of a large parallel plate capacitor moving with S'. Show that the component of electric field E parallel to the motion is unchanged, that is, Ex = Ex’. [
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An electron (q=-1.602x10^(-19)C and m=9.11x10^(-31)kg) is place at the center of an infinite uniformly charged cylinder (ρ=-0.15µC/m^(3)and radius of 5cm) with a speed of 3.2Mm/s radially outward. What is the speed of the electron after it moves 10m? Assume it doesn't hit everything.
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Suppose heat is transferred at a rate of 500 W into 1 L of water. The water starts at 20˚C.
a) How much heat is required to raise the water temperature to 100 ˚C? How long does this take?
b) How much heat is required to boil off half the water? How long does this take? Comment on the value compared to part a.
c) Plot temperature vs Q for this heating process. You should only need 3 points for the graph, connected by straight lines. You should have this information from the previous steps.
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I am taking physics lab and I can not understand the difference of the sources of errors below:
Random error in measurement
Random intrinsic error
Systematic error in measurement
Systematic intrinsic error
So, can you explain the difference between them please
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A 2.20-m radius playground merry-go-round has a mass of 101.5 kg and is rotating with an angular velocity of 0.91 rev/s. What is its angular velocity after a 38.4-kg child gets onto it by grabbing its outer edge? The child is initially at rest. Express your answer in revs/s.
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A series of whole-body counts indicated that a worker had a body burden of 18 microCi of Na-24 which was cleared from his body with effective half-life of 12 hours. Calculate: a. The biological half-life b. Cumulative activity c. Dose to the whole body
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a) What is the greatest possible geocentric latitude of Venus, i.e., how far from the Sun can the planet be at the inferior conjunction? Assume the orbits are circular. b) When is the situation possible? The longitude of the ascending node of Venus is 77◦ .
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A uniform plank of mass M and length L leans against a vertical wall. The initial angle it makes with the horizontal ground is 60º. It is let go from rest and slides down frictionlessly. The moment it leaves contact with the wall, what angle does it make with the ground? There is no friction anywhere.
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A heat engine uses a heat source at 580 ∘C and has an ideal (Carnot) efficiency of 29 % .
To increase the ideal efficiency to 46 % , what must be the temperature of the heat source?
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