7200 joules of heat and light energy was dissipated into the air. But no work was done ... no force moved through no distance.
Answer:
False
Explanation:
Think of the electric potential in terms of potential energy. If you imagine a place with high elevation (A) and another one at sea level (B), a ball will roll from high potential to low potential (A-->B).
Everything in our universe wants to reach a lower state of energy if no external force is acted upon it. Every object tends to slow down (friction), a radioactive element dissipates energy (an unstable element releases energy to get to a stable state), water in the clouds comes down to the ground (rain experiencing difference in potential energy).
Electric potential is exactly the same, you just can't see it! It flows from higher voltage (which is a synonym for electric potential) to lower voltage.
The solution would be like this for this specific problem:
Given:
diffraction grating
slits = 900 slits per centimeter
interference pattern that
is observed on a screen from the grating = 2.38m
maxima for two different
wavelengths = 3.40mm
slit separation .. d =
1/900cm = 1.11^-3cm = 1.111^-5 m <span>
Whenas n = 1, maxima (grating equation) sinθ = λ/d
Grant distance of each maxima from centre = y ..
<span>As sinθ ≈ y/D y/D =
λ/d λ = yd / D </span>
∆λ = (λ2 - λ1) = y2.d/D - y1.d/D
∆λ = (d/D) [y2 -y1]
<span>∆λ = 1.111^-5m x [3.40^-3m] / 2.38m .. .. ►∆λ = 1.587^-8 m</span></span>
