While watching a recent science fiction movie, one klingon spaceship blows up a droid spaceship with a laser gun. the klingon crew watches out the port window and covers their ears to muffle the noise from the explosion. scientifically, this scene is inaccurate because a) light can not reflect off objects in the vacuum of space. b) they would not be able to see anything outside the window. eliminate c) lasers can not be transmitted through the vacuum of space. d) the sound of the explosion would not be transmitted back to their ship.

Some material consisting of a collection of microscopic objects is kept at a high temperature. a photon detector capable of detecting photon energies from infrared through ultraviolet observes photons emitted with energies of 0.3 ev, 0.5 ev, 0.8 ev, 2.0ev, 2.5ev, and 2.8ev. these are the only photon energies observed. (a) draw and label a possible energy-level diagram for one of the microscopic objects, which has four bound states. on the diagram, indicate the transitions corresponding to the emitted photons. explain briefly. (b) would a spring–mass model be a good model for these microscopic objects? why or why not? (c) the material is now cooled down to a very low temperature, and the photon detector stops detecting photon emissions. next, a beam of light with a continuous range of energies from infrared through ultraviolet shines on the material, and the photon detector observes the beam of light after it passes through the material. what photon energies in this beam of light are observed to be significantly reduced in intensity (“dark absorption lines”)? explain briefly.