The Halley’s Comet regularly passes by the earth on its tour around the sun (at the time of Jesus’ birth it

was something different, most probably). The semi-

major axis of the elliptical path is 17.8 AU

(astronomical unit = 150·109 m). Halley’s last visit

at our earth was in 1985. Are you going to

experience the next visit?​

Light from a sodium lamp passes through a diffraction grating that has 1000 slits per millimeter. the interference pattern is viewed on a screen 1.000 m behind the grating. the first (m = 1) two bright yellow fringes that are visible are 0.7288 m and 0.7300 m from the central maximum. what are the wavelengths of these two fringes?

Two point charges are on the y axis. a 3.90-µc charge is located at y = 1.25 cm, and a -2.4-µc charge is located at y = −1.80 cm. (a) find the total electric potential at the origin. v (b) find the total electric potential at the point whose coordinates are (1.50 cm, 0). v

What would be the result of an alpha particle coming into a magnetic field? a) the alpha particle will stop moving. b) the alpha particle will reverse its direction. c) the alpha particle will be deflected in a curve path. d) the alpha particle will continue to travel in a straight line.