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:
Speed of the helium after collision = 246 m/s
Explanation:
Given that
Mass of helium ,m₁ = 4 u
u₁=598 m/s
Mass of oxygen ,m₂ = 32 u
u₂ = 401 m/s
v₂ =445 m/s
Given that initially both are moving in the same direction and lets take they are moving in the right direction.
Speed of the helium after collision = v₁
There is no any external force on the masses that is why the linear momentum will be conserve.
Initial linear momentum = Final linear momentum
P = m v
m₁u₁+m₂u₂ = m₁v₁+m₂v₂
598 x 4 + 32 x 401 = 4 x v₁+ 32 x 445
v₁ = 246 m/s
Speed of the helium after collision = 246 m/s
The temperature of the lithosphere is around 300<span>°C</span> - 500<span>°<span>C</span></span>
Consider that the bar magnet has a magnetic field that is acting around it, which will imply that there is a change in the magnetic flux through the loop whenever it moves towards the conducting loop. This could be described as an induction of the electromotive Force in the circuit from Faraday's law.
In turn by Lenz's law, said electromotive force opposes the change in the magnetic flux of the circuit. Therefore, there is a force that opposes the movement of the bar magnet through the conductor loop. Therefore, the bar magnet does not suffer free fall motion.
The bar magnet does not move as a freely falling object.
