You're at rest in a hammock when a hungry mosquito sees you as lunch, while a 2-m/s breeze is blowing. If the mosquito joins you for lunch, it should first hover over you by flying
A) against the breeze at 2 m/s.
B) with the breeze at 2 m/s.
C) a bit faster than wind speed.
D) none of the above
Question 2
In a single-slit diffraction experiment, a beam of monochromatic light passes through a slit of width 11.0 m.
If the first order dark fringe of the resulting diffraction pattern is at an angle of 4.31, what is the wavelength of light?
A) 827 nm
B) 301 nm
C) 602 nm
D) 402 nm
E) 201 nm
mosquito's left antenna magnified 500X
Hungry
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