It is found that a laser bounced off a glass surface incident at 57 degrees produces a transmitted beam angle of 38 degrees with respect to the vertical. At what incident angle will the reflected laser beam be fully polarized?

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C.

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A charged particle moves in a region of uniform magnetic field along a helical path (radius = 5.0 cm, pitch = 12 cm, period = 5.0 ms). What is the speed of this particle as it moves along this path?

a. 67 m/s b. 26 m/s c. 63 m/s d. 24 m/s e. 87 m/s

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A concave spherical mirror with a radius of 20 cm creates a real image 30 cm from the mirror. How far is the object from the mirror?

A) 50 cm B) 5.0 cm C) 20 cm D) 15 cm E) 7.5 cm

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An H-R diagram for a globular cluster will show a horizontal branch—a line of stars above the main-sequence but to the left of the subgiants and red giants. Which of the following statements about these horizontal branch stars is true?

A) They have inert (non-burning) carbon cores. B) Their sole source of energy is hydrogen shell burning. C) They generate energy through both hydrogen fusion and helium fusion. D) In a particular star cluster, all horizontal branch stars have the same spectral type.

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Standing Waves on a String: A guitar-like stringed instrument has a string that is 16 cm long. It sounds the musical note A (440 Hz) when played without fingering. By what distance should you shorten it to play the note C (523 Hz)?

A. 2.5 cm B. 1.7 cm C. 3.4 cm D. 4.2 cm

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