When a comet is in the inner solar system, what part of it points most directly away from the Sun?

A) the denser side of its nucleus
B) its coma
C) jets of gas emerging from its nucleus
D) its tail


D) its tail

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If a wave from one slit of a Young's double slit experiment arrives at a point on the screen one-half wavelength behind the wave from the other slit, which is observed at that point?

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