The combustion product that is created in the largest amounts by a coal-burning generating plant is
A) acids of sulfur and nitrogen, most of which is filtered out of the exhaust gases and disposed of as solid waste.
B) laughing gas, which is why Americans are so silly.
C) acids of sulfur and nitrogen, which go up the plant's stack and into the atmosphere.
D) carbon dioxide, which goes up the plant's stack and into the atmosphere.
E) carbon dioxide, most of which is filtered out of the exhaust gases and disposed of as solid waste.
Question 2
A laser beam passes through a thin slit. When the pattern is viewed on a screen 1.25 m past the slit, you observe that the fifth-order dark fringes occur at 2.41 cm from the central bright fringe.
The entire experiment is now performed within a liquid, and you observe that each of the fifth-order dark fringes is 0.790 cm closer to the central fringe than it was in air. What is the index of refraction of this liquid? A) 1.33
B) 1.40
C) 1.49
D) 1.62
E) 3.05