One of the reasons that quantum mechanics can seem so shocking is that quantum behavior is not readily apparent in our everyday life. as an example, assume that you are a particle of mass 65 kg. according to planck, you should have an associated wavelength. but you don't really seem to act like a wave: for example, you can pass through a doorway without diffracting. to explore whether this contradicts quantum mechanics, consider the doorway to be 1 m wide, and also consider that diffraction effects are only substantial when the wavelength is at least comparable to the width of the opening. given this, what is the largest speed at which you could pass through the doorway and experience diffraction?

Apackage of supplies is dropped from a plane, and one second later a second package is dropped. neglecting air resistance, the relative velocity of the 1st package viewed from the second will 56) a) increase. b) be constant. c) be zero. d) depend upon their weight. e) decrease

Ahorizontal wire is tied to supports at each end and vibrates in its second-overtone standing wave. the tension in the wire is 5.00 n, and the node-to-node distance in the standing wave is 6.28 cm. (a) what is the length of the wire? (b) a point at an anti- node of the standing wave on the wire travels from its maximum upward displacement to its maximum downward displacement in 8.40 ms. what is the wire's mass?

Aheat engine running backward is called a refrigerator if its purpose is to extract heat from a cold reservoir. the same engine running backward is called a heat pump if its purpose is to exhaust warm air into the hot reservoir. heat pumps are widely used for home heating. you can think of a heat pump as a refrigerator that is cooling the already cold outdoors and, with its exhaust heat qh, warming the indoors. perhaps this seems a little silly, but consider the following. electricity can be directly used to heat a home by passing an electric current through a heating coil. this is a direct, 100% conversion of work to heat. that is, 19.0 \rm kw of electric power (generated by doing work at the rate 19.0 kj/s at the power plant) produces heat energy inside the home at a rate of 19.0 kj/s. suppose that the neighbor's home has a heat pump with a coefficient of performance of 4.00, a realistic value. note: with a refrigerator, "what you get" is heat removed. but with a heat pump, "what you get" is heat delivered. so the coefficient of performance of a heat pump is k=qh/win. an average price for electricity is about 40 mj per dollar. a furnace or heat pump will run typically 200 hours per month during the winter. what does one month's heating cost in the home with a 16.0 kw electric heater? what does one month's heating cost in the home of a neighbor who uses a heat pump to provide the same amount of heating?