The efficiency of classroom-demonstration lasers is typically
A) about one percent.
B) about ten percent.
C) about twenty percent.
D) more than twenty percent.
Answer: A
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A) The Moon originally was about the same size as Earth, but a giant impact blasted most of it away so that it ended up much smaller than Earth. B) The Moon formed just like Earth, from accretion in the solar nebula. C) The Moon formed from material blasted out of Earth's mantle and crust by the impact of a Mars-size object. D) The Moon formed when two gigantic asteroids collided with one another.
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Two equal point charges Q are separated by a distance d. One of the charges is released and moves away from the other due only to the electrical force between them
When the moving charge is a distance 3d from the other charge, what is its kinetic energy?
When a 12.0-V battery causes 2.00 ?C of charge to flow onto the plates of an air-filled capacitor, how much work did the battery do?
A) 24.0 ?J B) 12.0 ?J C) 144 ?J D) 576 J