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Astronomy

Figuring for Yourself

AstronomyFiguring for Yourself

Figuring for Yourself

41.

What is the wavelength of the carrier wave of a campus radio station, broadcasting at a frequency of 97.2 MHz (million cycles per second or million hertz)?

42.

What is the frequency of a red laser beam, with a wavelength of 670 nm, which your astronomy instructor might use to point to slides during a lecture on galaxies?

43.

You go to a dance club to forget how hard your astronomy midterm was. What is the frequency of a wave of ultraviolet light coming from a blacklight in the club, if its wavelength is 150 nm?

44.

What is the energy of the photon with the frequency you calculated in Exercise 5.43?

45.

If the emitted infrared radiation from Pluto, has a wavelength of maximum intensity at 75,000 nm, what is the temperature of Pluto assuming it follows Wien’s law?

46.

What is the temperature of a star whose maximum light is emitted at a wavelength of 290 nm?

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