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Chapter 18, Problem 23PE
A certain five cent coin contains 5.00 g of nickel. What fraction of the nickel atoms’ electrons, removed and placed 1.00 m above it, would support the weight of this coin? The
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A certain five cent coin contains 5.00 g of nickel. What fraction of the nickel atoms’ electrons, removed and placed 1.00 m above it, would support the weight of this coin? The atomic mass of nickel is 58.7, and each nickel atom contains 28 electrons and 28 protons.
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Two small aluminum spheres, each having a mass of 0.0150 kg, are separated by 60.0 cm.
(a) How many electrons does each sphere contain? (The atomic mass of aluminum is 26.982 g/mol, and its atomic number is 13.)
(b) How many electrons would have to be removed from one sphere and added to the other to cause an attractive force between the spheres of magnitude 1.00 x 10 N (roughly one ton)? Assume that the spheres may be treated as point charges.
(c) What fraction of all the electrons in each sphere does this represent?
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