Calculate the speed of a beam of neutrons produced in a nuclear reactor, having kinetic energies of 1.0 MeV. The rest mass of neutrons is 939 MeV/c2

A. 799 m/s
B. 640 km/s
C. 320 km/s
D. 24.5 km/s


B. 640 km/s

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The specific heat of water is 1.000 cal/gm What is the specific heat of water in the mks system of units?

A. 2,124 J/kg
B. 2,765 J/kg
C. 3,417 J/kg
D. 3,764 J/kg
E. 4,186 J/kg

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The wave function of an electron in a rigid box (infinite well) is shown in the figure. If the electron energy 98.0 eV, what is the energy of the electron's ground state? (mel = 9.11 × 10-31 kg)

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Based on our current understanding of physics, we can understand the conditions that prevailed in the early universe as far back in time as about ________

A) 10 billion years ago B) 10-45 seconds after the Big Bang C) one ten-billionth of a second after the Big Bang D) 380,000 years after the Big Bang

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