Light from a helium-neon laser (? = 632.8 nm) is incident upon a 0.200-mm-wide slit. Find the total width of the central maximum 2.00 m from the slit.

What will be an ideal response?


1.27 cm

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A Carnot engine operating between a reservoir of liquid mercury at its melting point (233 K) and a colder reservoir extracts 10.0 J of heat from the mercury and does 8.0 J of work during each cycle. What is the temperature of the colder reservoir?

A) 47 K B) 186 K C) 163 K D) 207 K

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____ is a set of rules that describes how atoms and subatomic particles behave

a. Kirchhoff's law b. Black body radiation law c. The Coulomb force d. Quantum mechanics e. The binding energy

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Basic Postulates: One of Einstein's postulates in formulating the special theory of relativity was that the laws of physics are the same in reference frames that

A. accelerate. B. move at constant velocity with respect to an inertial frame. C. oscillate. D. are stationary, but not in moving frames.

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