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Given the Volume, Find the Number of Atoms
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[QUOTE="asifion, post: 6170114, member: 661127"] [B]Homework Statement:[/B] A mad engineer builds a cube, 2.5 m on a side, in which 6.2-cm-diameter rubber balls are constantly sent flying in random directions by vibrating walls. He will award a prize to anyone who can figure out how many balls are in the cube without entering it or taking out any of the balls. You decide to shoot 6.2-cm-diameter plastic balls into the cube, through a small hole, to see how far they get before colliding with a rubber ball. After many shots, you find they travel an average distance of 2.8 m. How many rubber balls do you think are in the cube? [B]Relevant Equations:[/B] not sure but: N/V=p/(k_B*T) pV=nRT V/N = distance between atoms? So, I was thinking that the total volume of the cube divided by the number of atoms (or rubber balls) should intuitively give the average distance between each ball. What I did was: N = number of balls D = avg distance between balls (2.5)^3 / N = D (2.5)^3 / D = N D = 2.8 - 2 * radius (I'm assuming the given average distance is from center to center of each sphere) 2.5^3/(2.8-.062) = 5.7 balls [/QUOTE]
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