How would you like to look when you get old?

One day, after pulling down your window shade, you notice that sunlight is passing through a pinhole in the shade and making a small patch of light on the far wall. you see that the patch of light seems to be a circular diffraction pattern. it appears that the central maximum is about 1 cm across and you estimate that the distance from the window shade to the wall is about 3 m. what is (a) the average wavelength of sunlight? (b) the diameter of the pinhole?

The free body diagram shows a box being pulled to the left up a 25-degree incline. the magnitude of the normal force is

A2.00-m long piano wire with a mass per unit length of 12.0 g/m is under a tension of 8.00 kn. what is the frequency of the fundamental mode of vibration of this wire?