We can solve the problem by using the first law of thermodynamics:
where
is the variation of internal energy of the system
Q is the heat added to the system
W is the work done by the system
In this problem, the variation of internal energy of the system is
While the heat added to the system is
therefore, the work done by the system is
Sorry I didn't see this before...
Okay, I see two major problems with this student's experiment:
1) Nitric acid Won't Dissolve in Methane
Nitric acid is what's called a mineral acid. That means it is inorganic (it doesn't contain carbon) and dissolves in water.
Methane is an organic molecule (it contains carbon). It literally cannot dissolve nitric acid. Here's why:
For nitric acid (HNO3) to dissolve into a solvent, that solvent must be polar. It must have a charge to pull the positively charged Hydrogen off of the Oxygen. Methane has no charge, since its carbon and hydrogens have nearly perfect covalent bonds. Thus it cannot dissolve nitric acid. There will be no solution. That leads to the next problem:
2) He's Not actually Measuring a Solution
He's picking up the pH of the pure nitric acid. Since it didn't dissolve, what's left isn't a solution—it's like mixing oil and water. He has groups of methane and groups of nitric acid. Since methane is perfectly neutral (neither acid nor base), the electronic instrument is only picking up the extremely acidic nitric acid. There's no point to what he's doing.
Does that help?
Answer:
Millions or hundreds of million of years
Explanation:
It takes a very long time for decaying substances to form fossil fuels. It takes around millions or hundreds of million of years for the transformation to occur. This explains why they aren’t renewable.
Decayed plant materials usually form coal while decayed animal materials form crude oil.
To find the answer for this question, you simply need to divide 20 by 8, which is the speed he is traveling.
20 / 8 = 2.5
The football player will run 20 yards in 2 1/2 seconds.
Hope that helped! =)
Answer:
v = 54.2 m / s
Explanation:
Let's use energy conservation for this problem.
Starting point Higher
Em₀ = U = m g h
Final point. Lower
= K = ½ m v²
Em₀ = Em_{f}
m g h = ½ m v²
v² = 2gh
v = √ 2gh
Let's calculate
v = √ (2 9.8 150)
v = 54.2 m / s
