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Why are nuclear reactions used in nuclear power plants

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Mademuasel [1]3 years ago

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Answer:

Nuclear reactors are the heart of a nuclear power plant. They contain and control nuclear chain reactions that produce heat through a physical process called fission. That heat is used to make steam that spins a turbine to create electricity.

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At sunset, red light travels horizontally through the doorway in the western wall of your beach cabin, and you observe the light

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$9.8\cdot 10^{-6}m$

Explanation:

For light passing through a single slit, the position of the nth-minimum from the central bright fringe in the diffraction pattern is given by

$y=\frac{n \lambda D}{d}$

where

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D is the distance of the screen from the slit

d is the width of the slit

In this problem, we have

$\lambda=700 nm = 7.00\cdot 10^{-7}m$ is the wavelength of the red light

D = 14 m is the distance of the screen from the doorway

d = 1.0 m is the width of the doorway

Substituting n=1 into the equation, we find the distance between the central bright fringe and the first-order dark fringe (the first minimum):

$y=\frac{(1)(7.00\cdot 10^{-7} m)(14 m)}{1.0 m}=9.8\cdot 10^{-6}m$

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What is the wavelength, in nm, of the line in the hydrogen spectrum when one n value is 3 and the other n value is 6?

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$\lambda=1090nm$

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If it requires 7.0 j of work to stretch a particular spring by 2.1 cm from its equilibrium length, how much more work will be re

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