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Elenna [48]
3 years ago
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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

n electronic tool to measure the solution and determines that it is highly acidic. What is wrong with the student’s experiment?
Physics
2 answers:
DerKrebs [107]3 years ago
8 0
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?
tester [92]3 years ago
8 0

Answer:

B

Explanation:

He dissolved his sample in methane instead of water.

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              E_1=7.13*10^5 N/C

             E_2= 2.95*10^{5} N/C

              E_3= 3.84*10^5 N/C

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  From the question we are told that

          The length of the thin glass is  L = 10 cm

          The  charge on the glass rod is  q_g = 8.00nC = 8* 10^{-9} C

           The length of the plastic rod is  L_p = 10cm

             The charge on the  plastic rod is q_p =- 8.00nC = -8.0*10^{-9}C

           The distance between the materials  is d = 4.20cm = \frac{4.2}{100} =0.042m

          The various distances to obtain electric field of are r_1 = 1.0cm

                                                                                                r_2 = 2.0cm

                                                                                                 r_3 = 3.0cm

The objective of the solution is to obtain the electric field E_1 , E_2 \ and E_3 at distance d_1 , d_2 \ and \ d_3  from the glass rod  along the line connecting its mid point  

   Generally electric field of a charge rod at a distance of r the line dividing the rod  into half  is mathematically represented as

                              E = k \frac{2Q}{r\sqrt{L^2 + 4r^2} }

For the  r_2 = 1.0cm = \frac{1}{100} = 0.01m

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                               E_l =  k \frac{2Q }{r \sqrt{L^2 + 4r^2_1} }

The electric filed by the positively charge glass rod on the right  side of the dividing line is mathematically represented as  

                            E_r =  k \frac{2Q }{(0.044 - r_1) \sqrt{L^2 + 4r^2_1} }

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            E_{net} =E_1= E_l + E_r

                    = k \frac{2Q}{r_1\sqrt{L^2 + 4 r^2_1 } } + k \frac{2Q}{(0.04-r_1) \sqrt{L^2 + 4 (0.044 -r_1)^2} }

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                               E_l =  k \frac{2Q }{r_2 \sqrt{L^2 + 4r^2_2} }

The electric filed by the positively charge glass rod on the right  side of the dividing line is mathematically represented as  

                            E_r =  k \frac{2Q }{(0.044 - r_2) \sqrt{L^2 + 4r^2_2} }

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            E_{net} =E_2= E_l + E_r

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