INSTRUCTIONS: There are 10 questions on this assignment.
All of the questions are from Freedman and Kaufmann,
UNIVERSE, 7th edition.
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1. UNIVERSE, Chapter 4, Question 17, page 87.
2. UNIVERSE, Chapter 4, Question 21, page 87.
3. UNIVERSE, Chapter 4, Question 36, page 87.
4. UNIVERSE, Chapter 4, Question 39, page 87.
5. UNIVERSE, Chapter 4, Question 43, page 88.
(HINT: The mass of the Earth is very small
compared to the mass of the Sun.
Hence the sum of the Sun's mass and the Earth's mass
is for all practical purposes the same as the mass of the Sun alone.)
6. UNIVERSE, Chapter 5, Question 14, page 116.
7. UNIVERSE, Chapter 5, Question 28, page 116.
8. A photon has an energy of 0.015 eV.
(a) Calculate the wavelength of this photon. (Solution: 8.27 x 10-5 m)
(b) In what part of the electromagnetic spectrum does this wavelength lie?
9. UNIVERSE, Chapter 5, Question 36, page 117.
10. UNIVERSE, Chapter 5, Question 38, page 117.
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