Two particles, each with charge Q, and a third particle, with a charge q, are placed at the vertices of an equilateral triangle as shown. The total force on the particle with charge q is:
A) Parallel to the left side of the triangle
B) Parallel to the right side of the triangle
C) Parallel to the bottom side of the triangle
D) perpendicular to the bottom side of the triangle
E) perpendicular to the left side of the triangle
D) perpendicular to the bottom side of the triangle
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A cylindrical tank (height h, radius r) is full to the brim of water and its top is open to the outside air. What expression describes the speed of fluid flowing out of a hole that is opened up at height h’ above the bottom of the tank?
a. 
b. 
c. 
d. 
A light-emitting diode (LED) converts electricity to approximately sinusoidal electromagnetic waves with a definite frequency f. Imagine that light from the LED creates an oscillating electric field with amplitude E0 at a certain location. If we increase the electrical power to the LED so that the oscillation amplitude is now 2E0, by what factor have we increased the power?
A. 4 times
B. 2 times
C. 
times
D. One cannot answer without more information.
A ping-pong ball moving east at a speed of 4 m/s, collides with a stationary bowling ball. The Ping-Pong ball bounces back to the west, and the bowling ball moves very slowly to the east
Which object experiences the greater magnitude impulse during the collision? A) Neither; both experienced the same magnitude impulse. B) the Ping-Pong ball C) the bowling ball D) It's impossible to tell since the actual mass values are not given. E) It's impossible to tell since the velocities after the collision are unknown.
When the voltage across a nonohmic resistor is doubled, the current through it triples. What happens to the power delivered to this resistor?
a. This cannot be answered with the information given. b. The power decreases to 2/3 of the original amount. c. The power increases to 1.5 times the original amount. d. The power increases to 6 times the original amount.