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Two small conducting point charges, separated by 0.4 m, carry a total charge of 200 C. They repel one another with a force of 12

Lunna [17]

Answer:

200 C

Explanation:

Let C1 and C2 be their charges. According to Coulomb's law

$F_C = k\frac{C_1C_2}{R^2}$

where k = $8.99\times10^9 nm^2/C^2$ is the constant, R = 0.4m is the distance between them, F = 120 N is their resulting charge force

$120 = 8.99\times10^9\frac{C_1C_2}{0.4^2}$

$C_1C_2 = \frac{120*0.4^2}{8.99\times10^9} = 2.13\times10^{-9}$

Since their total charge is 200C:

$C_1 + C_2 = 200$ or $C_1 = 200 - C_2$

We can substitute the above equation

$C_1C_2 = (200 - C_2)C_2 = 2.13\times10^{-9}$

$-C_2^2 +200C_2 - 2.13\times10^{-9} = 0$

$C= \frac{-b \pm \sqrt{b^2 - 4ac}}{2a}$

$C= \frac{-200\pm \sqrt{(200)^2 - 4*(-1)*(-0.00000000213)}}{2*(-1)}$

$C= \frac{-200\pm200}{-2}$

$C = 1.06 \times 10^{-11}$ or $C \approx 200$

So the larger charge is C = 200 C

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3 years ago

How do you put 1/2000 into scientific notation? *

maksim [4K]

It’s e 2.0 x 10^-4 because it is a fraction

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3 years ago

A student tests the acidity of nitric acid (HNO3) by dissolving a sample of HNO3 in a solution of liquid methane. He then uses a

DerKrebs [107]

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?

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3 years ago

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It is estimated that uranium is relatively common in the earth's crust, occurring in amounts of 4 g / metric ton. A metric ton i

timama [110]

Answer:

The mass of Uranium present in a 1.2mg sample is $4.8 \cdot 10^{-6}\,mg$