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Naldo6
Oct22-08, 12:23 AM
The distance between a carbon atom (m = 12.0u) and an oxygen atom (m = 16.0u) in the CO molecule is 1.13×10-10 m. How far from the carbon atom is the center of mass of the molecule?

Hootenanny
Oct22-08, 06:01 AM
The distance between a carbon atom (m = 12.0u) and an oxygen atom (m = 16.0u) in the CO molecule is 1.13×10-10 m. How far from the carbon atom is the center of mass of the molecule?
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Naldo6
Oct22-08, 08:33 PM
i dont know how to begin that problem.... can anyone helps me?....

Hootenanny
Oct23-08, 03:45 AM
i dont know how to begin that problem.... can anyone helps me?....
Perhaps you could read your notes or textbook?

Naldo6
Oct23-08, 08:28 AM
that exerccise is not in my book...

LowlyPion
Oct23-08, 08:31 AM
that exerccise is not in my book...

How do you find the center of mass then?

Or if you don't know how, then what is the center of mass?

Naldo6
Oct23-08, 08:33 AM
i really dont knwo too much.. i dont understand my physics profesor....

LowlyPion
Oct23-08, 08:42 AM
i really dont knwo too much.. i dont understand my physics profesor....

Read this link then:
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/cm.html#cm