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Find the wavelength of a radio wave if the frequency is 11 x 10 ^6 Hz and the speed of radio waves in air is 3 x 10 ^8 m/s.

The key equation here is v = fL ( v is wave speed (m/s), f is frequency (Hz), L is wavelength (m)). We need to rearrange it to get L (the wavelength). To do this, we divide by f to get L = v/f. Frequency is ...
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State what is meant by a Doppler shift and describe how it was used to study the movement of galaxies.

Doppler shift can be described as the fractional change in wavelength due to relative motion between an observer and a wave source. The wavelength of a line in the spectrum of light emitted by a distant regi...
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What Newton’s third law of motion?

if object A exerts a force on object B, object B exerts an equal and opposite force on object A.
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An exoplanet of mass 1.36x10^26 kg is orbiting a star of mass 3.2x10^31 kg at a distance of 1 AU. What is the magnitude of the gravitational force between the two?

We use Newtons equation for gravitational force. F=GMm/r 2 .1 AU is the mean distance at which the Earth orbits the Sun, taken to be: 1.49x10 11 m.Substituting in the numbers we find the magnitude of the for...
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A bomb of mass 34kg, at rest is detonated. The explosion splits the bomb into two pieces, one of mass 13kg, which is thrown to the left at a velocity of 28 m/s. What is the velocity of the second piece?

In a collision where no external forces act linear momentum is conserved.Convention: Right + left -0=-13x28 + 21xVV=17.33 kg m/s to the right
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