Light of wavelength 550 nm in air is found to travel at 1.96 × 108 m/s in a certain liquid. (c = 3.0 × 108 m/s)

(a) What is the index of refraction of this liquid?
(b) What is the frequency of the light in air?


(a) 1.53 (b) 5.45 × 1014 Hz

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A ball collides with a second ball at rest. After the collision, the first ball comes to rest and the second ball moves off at the speed of the first ball. In this collision

A. total momentum is not conserved. B. total kinetic energy is not conserved. C. total momentum is conserved but total kinetic energy is not conserved. D. total momentum is not conserved but total kinetic energy is conserved. E. total momentum and total kinetic energy are conserved and the masses are equal.

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A monochromatic beam of light of wavelength 600 nm is incident normally on a diffraction grating with a slit spacing of 1.70 × 10-4 cm. What is the angle for the first order maximum?

A) 10.5° B) 12.1° C) 16.4° D) 18.2° E) 20.7°

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How much heat (in kcal) must be removed to make ice at -10°C from 2 kg of water at 20°C? (The specific heat of ice is 0.50 cal/g×°C.)

a. 190 b. 200 c. 240 d. 210 e. 50

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