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    Gas Law: Pressure & Volume - Hot Air Balloon

    ^i don't think volume is meaningless, the balloon can expand or shrink even with that opening at the bottom, so volume is defined in terms of the balloon
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    Quick Easy Question, takes 5 seconds

    i defined them in terms of the strength of intermolecular forces. not ill-defined at all yes, I'm sorry, i forgot that we are dealing with ions, not molecules well it was nearly word for word from the solubility section of my chem textbook, it's not incorrect again, i forgot about the ion...
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    Gas Law: Pressure & Volume - Hot Air Balloon

    But we are supposed to assume a constant pressure according to the question if the pressure is constant, the only variable changing as the hot air balloon rises, would be it is getting colder, which means less volume
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    Gas Law: Pressure & Volume - Hot Air Balloon

    as the hot air balloon rises, temperature gets lower, right? as temperature drops but all other variables stay the same, volume must drop berkeman why do you say the volume increases? what am i missing?
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    Quick Easy Question, takes 5 seconds

    with solubility, remember that like dissolves like (in terms of intermolecular forces) BaSO4 is quite similar to Na2SO4 but quite different from H2O (water has hydrogen bonding) so BaSO4 will be less soluble in water --- to understand why like dissolves like, consider a flask with two...
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    Biology problem (sorta physics like actually)

    A) if the head is 0.5 nm, and the lipid exchanges places every 10E-7s, then it is moving at 0.5nm per 10E-7s, or 5E-4 m/s (convert .5 nm to meters, divide by seconds, to get its velocity) if it takes 1 second to travel 2 micrometers, then it travels from one end of the bacterium to the...
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    Equilibrium Question: Get Help Solving

    1. the equilibrium will not shift, because while the total pressure will raise, the concentrations will still be the same (the same amount of mols of each gas per volume) since the volume did not change 2. it will shift to the left. there are 4 mols of gas on the left, and 2 mols of gas on...
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    Tricky equilibrium constant question

    Kc = [CO]^2/[CO] reduces to Kc = [CO] assuming 100g total, and 90.55g CO (30.18 mol), we need to find volume and then the answer will be 30.18mol / volume we can use PV=nRT to find the volume PV = nRT V = nRT / P we know temp, pressure, R, but we got to find n n = total moles...
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    What Is the Equilibrium Concentration of CO in the Reaction at 400K?

    ^your equation for x seems correct. i rearranged it to 0 = 5.72/x - 5.007 + x we need to find the zeroes when graphed, the zeros are 1.76 and 3.24 if we use 3.24, we would have a negative concentration of both CO and NH3, which is physically impossible. so, we go with 1.76 so the...
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    Derive a rate law from a mechanism (rates of reactions)

    Homework Statement The reaction: CO + Cl <-> COCl2 has the rate law: rate = k[CO][Cl2]^(3/2) Show that this rate law is consistent with the mechanism: Cl2 <-> 2Cl (fast) Cl + CO <-> COCl (fast) Cl2 + COCl -> COCl2 + Cl (slow) (i don't know how to do superscript and subscript on...
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    Chemistry: Activation Energy (Arrhenius equation)

    i just did this problem on my homework we have ln( k2/k1 ) = (Ea/R) * (1/T1 - 1/T2) where k is the reaction constant, Ea is activation energy, R is gas constant, T is temperature what are we solving for? well we want to see how k changes. we rearrange the equation: [antilog of both...
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    Why Does a Planet Rotate and What Factors Influence Its Angle of Rotation?

    angular momentum. if you throw a bunch of rocks together and make a planet, it won't be sitting still, itll be spinning and travelling
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    Required velocity for a stable orbit?

    dont know why this was moved here, it wasnt hw, I'm not even in physics
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    Required velocity for a stable orbit?

    someone on another forum (BL) gave me this handy equation: crit_velocity = sqrt( 2*G*m1 / dist ) where m1 is the mass of hte heavier object. note, this only works if hte mass of the lighter object is much much lighter than the heavier object if the velocity of the lighter object is...
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    Required velocity for a stable orbit?

    ^hey complex. i didn't know there was the term 'orbital velocity' googling this term should give me everything i need, thanks
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