Question 2a: At the moments when the sun is not blocked by clouds on the cloudy day (8/19), we see that the solar radiation around noon is stronger than the solar radiation around noon on the clear day (9/12)? Why would this be?

Certain bacteria (such as aquaspirillum magnetotacticum) tend to swim toward the earth’s geographic north pole because they contain tiny particles, called magnetosomes, that are sensitive to a magnetic field. if a transmission line carrying 100 a is laid underwater, at what range of distances would the magnetic field from this line be great enough to interfere with the migration of these bacteria? (assume that a field less than 5% of the earth’s field would have little effect on the bacteria. take the earth’s field to be 5.0 * 10-5 t, and ignore the effects of the seawater.)

What would be the radius of the earth if it had its actual mass but had the density of nuclei? express your answer to two significant figures and include the appropriate units.

The two most prominent wavelengths in the light emitted by a hydrogen discharge lamp are 656(red) and 486 (blue). light from a hydrogen lamp illuminates a diffraction grating with 500 lines per mm, and the light is observed on a screen 1.50 behind the grating. what is the distance between the first-order red and blue fringes?