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jonny [76]
3 years ago
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Traditional explosives use the energy released by chemical reactions. Nuclear weapons use the energy released by nuclear reactio

ns. Why are nuclear weapons much more destructive than traditional explosives? Question 16 options: A. Chemical reactions can release much more energy than nuclear reactions B. Chemical reactions always use more energy than they release Nuclear weapons always contain more chemicals than traditional explosive C. Chemical reactions always release more energy than they use D. Nuclear reactions can release much more energy than chemical reactions
Physics
2 answers:
lawyer [7]3 years ago
5 0
I believe the correct answer from the choices listed above is option D. Nu<span>clear weapons are much more destructive than traditional explosives because nu</span><span>clear reactions can release much more energy than chemical reactions. Hope this answers the question.</span>
vazorg [7]3 years ago
4 0

Answer: The correct answer is option D.

Explanation:

Chemical reactions are defined as the reactions in which rearrangement of one or more substances gets converted to one or more different substances known as products. Energy is released in the reactions where energy of products is less than the energy of the reactants.

Nuclear reactions are the reactions in which atomic nucleus undergoes change and releases a huge amount of energy in the process. There are two types of nuclear reactions: Nuclear fusion and nuclear fission. Both the nuclear reactions releases a huge amount of energy.

From the given information above, we conclude that the correct option is Option D.

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6) Repulsive

7) The electric force is 2.3\cdot 10^{39} times bigger than the gravitational force

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1)

In nature, the minimum possible charge that an object can have is the charge of the electron, which is called fundamental charge:

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2)

As we said in part 1), an object should have an integer number of electrons in order to be charged.

This means that the charge of an object must be an integer multiple of the fundamental charge, so we can write it as:

Q=ne

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Q is the charge of the object

n is an integer multiple

e is the fundamental charge

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Q=2.4\cdot 10^{-18}C

Substituting the value of e, we find n:

n=\frac{Q}{e}=\frac{2.4\cdot 10^{-18}}{1.6\cdot 10^{-19}}=15

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We now do the same procedure for the new object in this part, which has a charge of

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n is not integer, so this value of charge is not possible, since an object cannot have a fractional number of electrons.

4)

To solve this part, we use Newton's third law of motion, which states that:

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7)

The electric force between the proton and the electron in the atom can be written as

F_E=k\frac{q_1 q_2}{r^2}

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r=5.3\cdot 10^{-11} m is the separation between them

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F_E=\frac{ke^2}{r^2}

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