Oxygen (O2) has a molar mass of g/mol. What is the average translational kinetic energy of an oxygen molecule at a temperature of K?
Oxygen (O2) has a molar mass of g/mol. What is the momentum of an oxygen molecule traveling at this speed?
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Oxygen (O2) has a molar mass of g/mol. Suppose an oxygen molecule traveling at this speed bounces back and forth between opposite sides of a cubical vessel m on a side. What is the average force the molecule exerts on one of the walls of the container? (Assume that the molecule's velocity is perpendicular to the two sides that it strikes.)
Oxygen (O2) has a molar mass of g/mol. How many oxygen molecules traveling at this speed are necessary to produce an average pressure of atm?
Calculate the mean free path of air molecules at atm and K. (This pressure is readily attainable in the laboratory; see Exercise .) As in Example , model the air molecules as spheres of radius m.
We have two equal-size boxes, A and B. Each box contains gas that behaves as an ideal gas. We insert a thermometer into each box and find that the gas in box A is at °C while the gas in box B is at °C. This is all we know about the gas in the boxes. Which of the following statements must be true? Which could be true? Explain your reasoning.
(a) The pressure in A is higher than in B.
(b) There are more molecules in A than in B.
(c) A and B do not contain the same type of gas.
(d) The molecules in A have more average kinetic energy per molecule than those in B.
(e) The molecules in A are moving faster than those in B.
The atmosphere of Mars is mostly CO2 (molar mass g/mol) under a pressure of Pa, which we shall assume remains constant. In many places the temperature varies from °C in summer to °C in winter. Over the course of a Martian year, what are the ranges of the rms speeds of the CO2 molecules.
