Snell's Law: A thin laser beam traveling in air strikes the surface of a glass plate at 41.2° with the normal. In the plate, this beam makes an angle of 22.4° with the normal. What is the speed of light in this glass? (c = 3.0 × 108 m/s)
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
1.74 × 108 m/s
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a. angular diameter b. mass c. orbital speed d. age e. recession velocity
How does the fraction of oxygen in Earth's atmosphere today compare to what it was 3 billion years ago?
a. It has significantly declined. b. It has significantly increased. c. It kept increasing up to 2 billion years ago but has been declining ever since. d. It hasn't changed.
Two extremely large nonconducting horizontal sheets each carry uniform charge density on the surfaces facing each other
The upper sheet carries +5.00 µC/m2. The electric field midway between the sheets is 4.25 × 105 N/C pointing downward. What is the surface charge density on the lower sheet? (?0 = 8.85 × 10-12 C2/N ? m2) What will be an ideal response?
Two boys in a canoe toss a baseball back and forth. What effect will this have on the canoe? Neglect (velocity-dependent) frictional forces with water or air
a. None, because the ball remains in the canoe. b. The canoe will drift in the direction of the boy who throws the ball harder each time. c. The canoe will drift in the direction of the boy who throws the ball with less force each time. d. The canoe will oscillate back and forth always moving opposite to the ball. e. The canoe will oscillate in the direction of the ball because the canoe and ball exert forces in opposite directions upon the person throwing the ball.