You and your friend live in different states and plant identical hydrangea bulbs in your garden. When they bloom, you send each other pictures. You notice that even though you bought the exact same kind of plant, your hydrangea flowers are blue and your friend’s are pink! On a hunch, you each measure the pH of your soil and find that your soil is a little acidic and your friend’s is a little basic. Why do you think the flowers have different colors?

One kind of e-book display consists of millions of very small spheres that float in a thin fluid layer between two conducting transparent plates. each sphere is black on one side and white on the other, and possesses an electric dipole moment directed from the white side to the black. when an electric field is applied between the plates, the spheres rotate so that their dipole moment lines up with the field. depending on the fields direction, either the black or the white sides of th espheres can be made visible. the dipole moment of the spheres can be modeled as two opposite charges of magnitude 3.5 x 10^-15 c, separated by a distancce of 100 micrometers (um). what is the maximum possible torque on a sphere if the electric field between the transparent plates is 4.0 x 10^5 n/c