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3 years ago

Apply the concept of density to explain why oil floats on water.

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1 answer:

Sauron [17]3 years ago

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Anything less dense than water will float, like oil. Anything more dense than water will sink, like rock.

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Explanation:

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The kinetic energy of an object is the energy possessed by the object due to its motion. It is calculated as

$K=\frac{1}{2}mv^2$

where

m is the mass of the object

v is the velocity of the object

We notice that:

The kinetic energy is directly proportional to the mass
The kinetic energy is proportional to the square of the velocity

In the graph, one of the two quantities (either mass or speed) is represented on the x-axis, while the quantity on the y-axis is the kinetic energy.

First of all, we notice that the relationship is not linear: this means that the quantity on the x-axis cannot be the mass, so it must be the velocity.

Moreover, we notice that when the quantity on the x-axis increases from 1 to 2 (so, it doubles), the kinetic energy increases by a factor of 4. This means that the object's velocity has doubled, therefore

B) The object's velocity doubled.

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Charge on helium nucleus is 2e and its mass is $6.63\times 10^{-27}\ kg$

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3 years ago

Consider two diffraction gratings. One grating has 3000 lines per cm, and the other one has 6000 lines per cm. Both gratings are

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Answer:

<em>The 6000 lines per cm grating, will produces the greater dispersion .</em>

Explanation:

A diffraction grating is an optical component with a periodic (usually one that has ridges or rulings on their surface rather than dark lines) structure that splits and diffracts light into several beams travelling in different directions.

The directions of the light beam produced from a diffraction grating depend on the spacing of the grating, and also on the wavelength of the light.

For a plane diffraction grating, the angular positions of principle maxima is given by

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a+b is the distance between two consecutive slits

n is the order of principal maxima

λ is the wavelength of the light

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In this case, light of the same wavelength is used. If λ and n is held constant, then we'll see that reducing the distance between two consecutive slits (a + b) will lead to an increase in the angle of dispersion sin ∅. So long as the limit of sin ∅ not greater that one is maintained.

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