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3 years ago

How can two substances be made up of the same two elements but have very different properties?

Physics

2 answers:

PSYCHO15rus [73]3 years ago

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Answer:

It is due to their structure

Explanation:

Some molecules have the exact same molecular formula but when you look at them you can see that they are shaped differently,

An example being coal and diamond, both are made of pure carbon but the reason why diamond is so much stronger than coal is because of its lattice structure.

asambeis [7]3 years ago

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So, basically, it might have different quantities, such as Carbon Dioxide (CO2) and Carbon Monoxide (CO), which are both made up of Carbon and Oxygen, but Carbon Monoxide has less oxygen. And they both have different properties, like CO is poisonous.

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3 years ago

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The acceleration of the runner in the given time is 2.06m/s².

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Since the runner begins from rest,

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Acceleration of the runner; $a = \ ?$

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$v = u + at$

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To determine the acceleration of the runner, we substitute our given values into the equation above.

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2 years ago

Block A is accelerating with Block B at a rate of 0.800 m/s2 along a frictionless surface. It suddenly encounters a surface that

Natalija [7]

Answer:

$a=0.6\ m/s^2$

Explanation:

The attached figure shows the whole description. Considering the applied force is 100 N.

The acceleration of both blocks A and B, $a=0.8\ m/s^2$

Firstly calculating the mass m using the second law of motion as :

F = ma

m is the mass

$m=\dfrac{F}{a}$

$m=\dfrac{100\ N}{0.8\ m/s^2}$

m = 125 kg

It suddenly encounters a surface that supplies 25.0 N a friction, F' = 25 N

$(F-F')=ma$

$(100-25)=125\times a$

$a=\dfrac{75}{125}=0.6\ m/s^2$

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3 years ago

An object is attached to a hanging unstretched, ideal and massless spring and slowly lowered to its equilibrium position, a dist

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Answer:

10.6cm

Explanation:

We are given 5.3cm below the starting point (spring extension).

Therefore, to find static vertical equilibrium, we use the equation:

kx = mg

Where:

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=mg/5.3 kg/s²

We are told the object was dropped from rest.

Therefore:

loss in potential energy = gain in spring p.e

Let's use the expression:

mgx = ½kx²

We are asked to find the stretch at maximum elongation x.

To find x, we make x subject of the formula.

Therefore, we have:

x = 2mg/k (after rearranging the equation above)

x = (2mg) / (mg/5.3)

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3 years ago

The half-life of Iodine-131 is 8.0252 days. If 14.2 grams of I-131 is released in Japan and takes 31.8 days to travel across the

MakcuM [25]

Answer:

Explanation:

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$P=14.2\left (\dfrac{1}{2} \right)^{\frac{t}{8.0252}}$

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If one forgets the half-life formula, one can derive an equivalent equation by recalling the basic an exponential equation, $y=a b^{t}$ , where $t$ is still the amount of time, and $y$ is the amount remaining at time $t$ . The constants a and b can be solved for as follows:

Knowing that amount initially is 14.2g, we let this be time zero:

$y=a b^{t}$

$(14.2)=ab^{(0)}$

$14.2=a *1$

$14.2=a$

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Knowing that the "half-life" is 8.0252 days (note that the unit here is "days", so times for all future uses of this equation must be in "days"), we know that the amount remaining after that time will be one-half of what we started with:

$\left(\frac{1}{2} *14.2 \right)=14.2 b^{(8.0252)}$

$\dfrac{7.1}{14.2}=\dfrac{14.2 b^{8.0252}}{14.2}$

$0.5=b^{8.0252}$

$\sqrt[8.0252]{\frac{1}{2}}=\sqrt[8.0252]{b^{8.0252}}$

$\sqrt[8.0252]{\frac{1}{2}}=b$

Recalling exponent properties, one could find that $\left ( \frac{1}{2} \right )^{\frac{1}{8.0252}}=b$ , which will give the equation identical to the half-life formula. However, recalling this trivia about exponent properties is not necessary to solve this problem. One can just evaluate the radical in a calculator:

$b=0.9172535661...$

Using this decimal approximation has advantages (don't have to remember the half-life formula & don't have to remember as many exponent properties), but one minor disadvantage (need to keep more decimal places to reduce rounding error).

So, our general equation derived from the basic exponential function is:

$y=14.2* (0.9172535661)^t$ or $y=14.2*(0.5)^{\frac{t}{8.0252}}$ where y represents the amount remaining at time t.