When a pendulum is at the midpoint of its oscillation, hanging straight down, which statement is true?
a. both kinetic energy and potential energy are at their maximum.
b. both kinetic energy and potential energy are at their minimum.
c. kinetic energy is maximum and potential energy is minimum.
d. kinetic energy is minimum and potential energy is maximum.
e. both kinetic energy and potential energy are at intermediate values.

One day, after pulling down your window shade, you notice that sunlight is passing through a pinhole in the shade and making a small patch of light on the far wall. you see that the patch of light seems to be a circular diffraction pattern. it appears that the central maximum is about 1 cm across and you estimate that the distance from the window shade to the wall is about 3 m. what is (a) the average wavelength of sunlight? (b) the diameter of the pinhole?

An engineer designs a roller coaster so that a car travels horizontally for 152 ft, then climbs 137 ft at an angle of 34.0° above the horizontal. it then moves 137 ft at an angle of 48.0° below the horizontal. if we take the initial horizontal motion of the car to be along the +x-axis, what is the car's displacement? (give the magnitude of your answer, in ft, to at least four significant figures and give the direction of your answer in degrees counterclockwise from the +x-axis.)

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