Consider a student whose mass is 70 kg. If all his mass were converted to electrical energy, for how many years could he keep a 100-W light bulb burning? (c = 3.0 × 108 m/s)

What will be an ideal response?


6.3 × 1016 s = 2.0 billion years!

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An aluminum bar of diameter d 5 52 mm is twisted by torques T1 at the ends. The allowable shear stress is 65 MPa. The maximum permis-sible torque T1 is approximately:


(A) 1450 N?m
(B) 1675 N?m
(C) 1710 N?m
(D) 1800 N?m

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Two infinite, uniformly charged, flat surfaces are mutually perpendicular. One of the sheets has a charge density of +60 pC/m2, and the other carries a charge density of ?80 pC/m2. What is the magnitude of the electric field at any point not on either surface?

A. 1.1 N/C B. 5.6 N/C C. 7.9 N/C D. 3.8 N/C E. 4.0 N/C

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In the Southern Hemisphere, the direction of Ekman transport is

A) at a 45° angle from the wind direction. B) parallel to the wind direction. C) to the right of the wind direction. D) to the left of the wind direction.

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An electron moving in the positive x direction experiences a magnetic force in the positive z direction. If Bx = 0, what is the direction of the magnetic field?

a. negative y direction b. positive y direction c. negative z direction d. positive z direction e. negative x direction

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