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Quantum, Atomic, and Nuclear Physics

Question 1
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How does increasing the intensity of incident light on a metal surface while keeping frequency constant affect the results in a photoelectric effect experiment?

Question 2
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What effect does decreasing neutron moderation efficiency have on nuclear reactor control during operation?

Question 3
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If a hypothetical particle's rest mass is theoretically zero, how would its energy behave as it approaches the speed of light according to Einstein's mass-energy equivalence principle?

Question 4
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Which unit is used to measure power, the rate at which energy is transferred or converted?

Question 5
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What is the SI unit of energy?

Question 6
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What implications arise for quantum tunnelling probabilities as potential barrier width increases for particles with fixed kinetic energies?

Question 7
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If a particle is at rest inside a uniform magnetic field and then receives an instantaneous impulse providing it with velocity perpendicular to the field, what experimental setup could measure the increase in mass of the particle due to relativistic effects?

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Question 8
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What occurs to the energy of a photon as it is redshifted when moving away from a gravitational field?

Question 9
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What theory explains the behavior of particles on a very small scale, such as atoms and subatomic particles?

Question 10
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What basic unit measures electric charge, a property that affects how substances respond within electromagnetic fields?