Suppose that you are hiding inside a large, hollow metal sphere that is resting above the ground on an insulating layer. There is a large charge Q placed on the sphere.
(a) If your body is neutral, will you be harmed if you touch the inside surface of the sphere?
(b) Your clothes produce a lot of static electricity and you have a small charge –q. Will you be harmed if you touch the inside surface of the sphere?

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?

15. give an example for some particles or waves that are moving faster than light in everyday life 16. what is a laser? 17. what is an oscilloscope? 18. what does it means practically that nothing is faster than light in vacuum? 19. what is vacuum?

While standing outdoors one evening, you are exposed to the following four types of electromagnetic radiation: yellow light from a sodium street lamp, radio waves from an am radio station, radio waves from an fm radio station, and microwaves from an antenna of a communications system. rank these type of waves in terms of increasing photon energy.