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3 years ago

"Describe the distribution of electromagnetic radiation emitted from the sun (what wavelengths are emitted

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garik1379 [7]3 years ago

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Answer:

The Sun is known to emit almost all wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation but 99% of the radiation emitted by the sun lie in the ultraviolet, visible, and infrared regions.

Ultraviolet (UV) is a form of electromagnetic radiation with wavelength from 10 nm to 400 nm (750 THz). The wavelength is shorter than that of visible light but longer than X-rays. UV rays make up about 10% of the e-m waves from the sun. UV radiation is carcinogenic to the skin, and is absorbed by the melanin pigment in the skin.

Visible light is the only e-m wave that our eyes can pick up, i.e the only e-m wave we can see. The frequency of this spectrum corresponds to a band in the vicinity of 405–790 THz. It can further be separated into different colors. It makes up a large portion of the e-m waves coming from the sun.

Infrared wave is an e-m radiation whose wavelengths longer than those of visible light. It is is generally invisible to the human eye. The wavelength of an infrared wave extend from the red edge of the visible spectrum at 700 nanometers (frequency 430 THz), to 1 millimeter (300 GHz). Most of the thermal radiation emitted by objects near room temperature is infrared. Most of the heat from the sun reach us as infrared radiation. As with all e-m radiation, infrared radiation carries radiant energy and behaves both like a wave and like a photon.

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The solution would be like this for this specific problem:

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A 2.0-kg projectile is fired with initial velocity components v0x = 30 m/s and v0y = 40 m/s from a point on the Earth's surface.

Alexxandr [17]

Answer:

Kinetic energy of the projectile at the vertex of the trajectory: $900\; {\rm J}$ .

Work done when firing this projectile: $2500\; {\rm J}$ .

Explanation:

Since the drag on this projectile is negligible, the horizontal velocity $v_{x}$ of this projectile would stay the same (at $30\; {\rm m\cdot s^{-1}}$ ) throughout the flight.

The vertical velocity $v_{y}$ of this projectile would be $0\; {\rm m\cdot s^{-1}}$ at the vertex (highest point) of its trajectory. (Otherwise, if $v_{y} > 0$ , this projectile would continue moving up and reach an even higher point. If $v_{y} < 0$ , the projectile would be moving downwards, meaning that its previous location was higher than the current one.)

Overall, the velocity of this projectile would be $v = 30\; {\rm m\cdot s^{-1}}\!$ when it is at the top of the trajectory. The kinetic energy $\text{KE}$ of this projectile (mass $m = 2.0\; {\rm kg}$ ) at the vertex of its trajectory would be:

$\begin{aligned} \text{KE} &= \frac{1}{2}\, m\, v^{2} \\ &= \frac{1}{2} \times 2.0\; {\rm kg} \times (30\; {\rm m\cdot s^{-1}})^{2} \\ &= 900\; {\rm J} \end{aligned}$ .

Apply the Pythagorean Theorem to find the initial speed of this projectile:

$\begin{aligned}v &= \sqrt{(v_{x})^{2} + (v_{y})^{2}} \\ &= \left(\sqrt{900 + 1600}\right)\; {\rm m\cdot s^{-1}} \\ &= 50\; {\rm m\cdot s^{-1}}\end{aligned}$ .

Hence, the initial kinetic energy $\text{KE}$ of this projectile would be:

$\begin{aligned} \text{KE} &= \frac{1}{2}\, m\, v^{2} \\ &= \frac{1}{2} \times 2.0\; {\rm kg} \times (50\; {\rm m\cdot s^{-1}})^{2} \\ &=2500\; {\rm J} \end{aligned}$ .

All that energy was from the work done in launching this projectile. Hence, the (useful) work done in launching this projectile would be $2500\; {\rm J}$ .

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2 years ago

The time constant of a simple RL circuit is defined as _______. We say that R is the resistance of the circuit and L is the indu

Gennadij [26K]

Answer:

The correct answer will be " $\tau =\frac{L}{R}$ ".

Explanation:

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