To improve a xylophone's appearance, the orchestra director decides to have it painted. Each xylophone bar is actually a harmonic oscillator that vibrates when struck by a wooden mallet. When bending in its fundamental mode, the bar's middle and ends move in opposite directions. Painting the bar adds mass to the bar without affecting its stiffness, so the paint will:.

Amichelson interferometer operating at a 600 nm wavelength has a 3.02-cm-long glass cell in one arm. to begin, the air is pumped out of the cell and mirror m2 is adjusted to produce a bright spot at the center of the interference pattern. then a valve is opened and air is slowly admitted into the cell. the index of refraction of air at 1.00 atm pressure is 1.00028.how many bright-dark-bright fringe shifts are observed as the cell fills with air?