Mechanical (sound) waves are unable to travel through a vacuum, such as through space, but radio waves are transmitted to earth from satellites. how is this possible? a. radio waves are electromagnetic waves. b. satellites are located within our atmosphere. c. radio waves are very high energy mechanical waves. d. radio waves are changed to gamma rays for transmission.

Air is held within a frictionless piston-cylinder container, which is oriented vertically. the mass of the piston is 0.45 kg and the cross-sectional area is 0.0030 m2. initially (state 1) the pressure of the gas is sufficient to support the weight of the piston as well as the force exerted by the atmospheric pressure ( 101.32 kpa). the volume occupied by the air within the cylinder in state 1 is 1.00 liter. one end of a spring (with spring constant k = 1000 n/m) is attached to the top of the piston, while the other end of the spring is attached to a stage that can move vertically. initially the spring is undeflected and therefore exerts no force. then the stage is then moved quasistatically downward a distance of 10.0 cm, at which point the system reaches state 2. the piston-cylinder is not insulated; rather it remains in diathermal contact with the surroundings, which are at a constant temperature of 300 k. what is the change of pressure within the container?

Hydrogen atoms are excited by a laser to the =4n=4 state and then allowed to emit. what is the maximum number of distinct emission spectral lines (lines of different wavelengths) that can be observed from this system? 8 6 2 7 4 5 1 3 calculate the wavelength of the 4⟶14⟶1 transition. =λ=

Abird flies directly overhead from where you stand at an altitude of 300.0 m and at a speed horizontal to the ground of 20.0 m/s. the bird has a mass of 2.0 kg. the radius vector to the bird makes an angle \thetaθ with respect to the ground. the radius vector to the bird and its momentum vector lie in the xyxy-plane. what is the bird’s angular momentum about the point where you are standing?