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2 years ago

Name one situation in which you might notice the reflection of a wave

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Lady bird [3.3K]2 years ago

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Answer:

A perfect example of wave reflection is an echo.

Explanation:

A wave reflection takes place when waves cannot pass through a surface and in turn they bounce back. It is not necessary that wave reflections can only happen with sound waves, they can also take place in light waves. Also, the waves which are reflected have the same frequency as the original wave, but their direction is different. When a wave strikes an object in the same angle, they bounce back straight but when they hit an object with different angle, their direction changes.

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Explanation:

The formula for hydrogen atomic spectrum is as follows

energy of photon due to transition from higher orbit n₂ to n₁

$E=13.6 (\frac{1}{n_1^2 } - \frac{1}{n_2^2})eV$

For layman series n₁ = 1 and n₂ = 2 , 3 , 4 , ... etc

energy of first line

$E_1=13.6 (\frac{1}{1^2 } - \frac{1}{2 ^2})$

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wavelength of photon = 12375 / 10.2 = 1213.2 A

energy of 2 nd line

$E_2=13.6 (\frac{1}{1^2 } - \frac{1}{3 ^2})$

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wavelength of photon = 12375 / 12.08 = 1024.4 A

energy of third line

$E_3=13.6 (\frac{1}{1^2 } - \frac{1}{4 ^2})$

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wavelength of photon = 12375 / 12.75 = 970.6 A

energy of fourth line

$E_4=13.6 (\frac{1}{1^2 } - \frac{1}{5 ^2})$

= 13.056 eV

wavelength of photon = 12375 / 13.05 = 948.3 A

energy of fifth line

$E_5=13.6 (\frac{1}{1^2 } - \frac{1}{6 ^2})$

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What is force derived from

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Answer:

Force can also be described intuitively as a push or a pull. ... It is measured in the SI unit of newtons and represented by the symbol F. The original form of Newton's second law states that the net force acting upon an object is equal to the rate at which its momentum changes with time.

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$v = \sqrt{\frac{T}{\mu}}$

Here

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T = Tension

$\mu$ = Linear mass density

From this proportion we can realize that the speed of the wave is directly proportional to the square of the tension

$v \propto \sqrt{T}$

Therefore, if there is an increase in tension of 4, the velocity will increase the square root of that proportion

$v \propto \sqrt{4} = 2$

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2 years ago

The Balmer series in hydrogen atom produces only infrared emission. O True O False

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Answer:

False

Explanation:

As we know that, the Balmer series gives the n values as,

$n_{i}=2$ .

$[tex]n_{f}=3,4,5,.....\infty$ .

Now the value of wavelength can be calculated as,

$\frac{1}{\lambda}=R(\frac{1}{n_{i} }-\frac{1}{n_{f} } )z^{2}$ .

Here, $R=109677 cm^{-1}$ .

And $n_{f}=3$ .

Now,

$\frac{1}{\lambda}=109677 cm^{-1}(\frac{1}{2}-\frac{1}{3})$ .

Therefore,

$\lambda=\frac{6}{109677} cm\\\lambda=547\times 10^{-9} m\\ \lambda=547 nm$

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