An object is placed at a known distance in front of a mirror whose focal length is also known. You apply the mirror equation and find that the image distance is a negative number. This result tells...
Suppose that you hold up a small convex mirror in front of your face. Which answer describes the image of your face? (a) Virtual, inverted (b) Virtual, upright (c) Virtual, enlarged (d) Real,...
Assume that the following reaction occurs at constant pressure: 2Al(s) + 3Cl 2 (g)2 AlCl 3 (s) (a) If you are given H for the reaction, what additional information do you need to determine E for the...
Sodium hydroxide is dissolved in enough water to make up a 20.0 mole% solution. (a) If the NaOH and water are initially at 77F (25C), how much heat (Btu/lb product solution) must be removed for the...
(a) Does metallic character increase, decrease, or remain unchanged as one goes from left to right across a row of the periodic table? (b) Does metallic character increase, decrease, or remain...
You have a gas at 25 C confined to a cylinder with a movable piston. Which of the following actions would double the gas pressure? (a) Lifting up on the piston to double the volume while keeping the...
It takes 4 h 39 min for a 2.00-mg sample of radium-230 to decay to 0.25 mg. What is the half-life of radium-230?
A fuel gas is known to contain methane, ethane, and carbon monoxide. A sample of the gas is charged into an initially evacuated 2.000-liter vessel at 25C and 2323mm Hg absolute. The vessel is weighed...
A flask contains 49.8 mL of 0.150 M Ca(OH) 2 (calcium hydroxide). How many milliliters of 0.500 M Na 2 CO 3 (sodium carbonate) are required to react completely with the calcium hydroxide in the...
A sample of nitrogen gas at 17C and 760 mmHg has a volume of 8.06 mL. What is the volume at 9C and 1 atm of pressure?
Consider the possibility of converting carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide by the endothermic reaction CO 2( g) + H 2( g) CO(g) + H 2 O(g) Is a high or a low temperature more favorable to the...
A tracer is used to characterize the degree of mixing in a continuous stirred tank. Water enters and leaves the mixer at a rate of V (m 3 /min). Scale has built up on the inside walls of the tank, so...
Lauryl alcohol, C 12 H 25 OH, is prepared from coconut oil; it is used to make sodium lauryl sulfate, a synthetic detergent. What is the molality of lauryl alcohol in a solution of 17.1 g lauryl...
Calculate the lattice energy of potassium fluoride, KF, using the BornHaber cycle. Use thermodynamic data from Appendix C to obtain the enthalpy changes for each step.
What is the pH at the equivalence point when 22 mL of 0.20 M hydroxylamine is titrated with 0.10 M HCl?
a. Which of the following compounds will form hydrogen bonds between its molecules? 1. CH 3 CH 2 CH 2 COOH 2. CH 2 CH 2 N(CH 3 ) 2 3. CH 3 CH 2 CH 2 CH 2 Br 4. CH 3 CH 2 CH 2 NHCH 3 5. CH 3 CH 2 OCH...
Which structure does not represent 2-methylpentane? a. b. c. d.
Assign (R ) or (S ) designations to each of the following compounds: a. b. c. d. H,C, CI
A quantity of strong acid is added to pure water to give a solution that is 0.100 M H + . Calculate Q for the following reaction just as the H + ion is added and before equilibrium is established. H...
Water in a piston/cylinder (Fig. P3.174) is at 101 kPa, 25C, and mass 0.5 kg. The piston rests on some stops, and the pressure should be 1000 kPa to float the piston. We now heat the water, so the...
A flow of 1 kg/s carbon dioxide at 1600 K, 100 kPa is mixed with a flow of 2 kg/s water at 800 K, 100 kPa, and after the mixing it goes through a heat exchanger, where it is cooled to 500 K by a 400...
Birch reduction of toluene leads to a product with the molecular formula C 7 H 10 . On ozonolysis followed by reduction with dimethyl sulfide, the product is transformed into What is the structure of...
(a) When n-heptane burns in a gasoline engine, the combustion process takes place too quickly. The explosive detonation makes a noise called knocking. When 2,2,4-trimethylpentane (isooctane) is...
In hydrophilic interaction chromatography (HILIC), why is eluent strength increased by increasing the fraction of water in the mobile phase?
Why do open tubular columns provide greater resolution than packed columns in gas chromatography?
What is the absolute uncertainty in mass (? Da) at m/z 100 and at m/z 20 000 if the mass accuracy of a spectrometer is 2 ppm?
Find the heat of evaporation, hfg, for R-134a at 30 F from the generalized charts and compare to the value in Table F. 10.
Consider a binomial experiment with n = 20 and p = .70. a. Compute f (12). b. Compute f (16). c. Compute P(x 16). d. Compute P(x 15). e. Compute E(x). f. Compute Var (x) and s.
Predict the products and propose mechanisms for the following reactions. a. b. c. d. H+ OCH,CH3 excess H,0
Explain the meaning of each of the following terms. In your answer include an example to help with your explanation. a. Expansion. b. Contraction. c. Physical change. d. Sublimation. e. Diffusion. f....
Many of the condensations we have studied are reversible. The reverse reactions are often given the prefix retro-, the Latin word meaning backward. Propose mechanisms to account for the following...
Review Conceptual Example 7 in preparation for this problem. In tests on earth a lunar surface exploration vehicle (mass = 5.90 10 3 kg) achieves a forward acceleration of 0.220 m/s 2 . To achieve...
This question is about FORCE and ACCELERATION. The driver of a car moving at 20 m/s along a straight level road applies the brakes. The car decelerates at a steady rate of 5 m/s 2 . a. How long does...
Review Conceptual Example 7 as background material for this problem. A jet transport has a weight of 1.00 106 N and is at rest on the runway. The two rear wheels are 15.0 m behind the front wheel,...
You and your crew must dock your 25000 kg spaceship at Spaceport Alpha, which is orbiting Mars. In the process, Alphas control tower has requested that you ram another vessel, a freight ship of mass...
a. Write down, in words, the equation connecting speed, distance and time. b. A car travels at a steady speed of 20 m/s. Calculate the distance travelled in 5 s.
Review Conceptual Example 14 before attempting this problem. The truck in that example is traveling at 27 m/s. The density of air is 1.29 kg/m 3 . By how much does the pressure inside the cargo area...
An unstable nucleus has 137 neutrons and 88 protons. It decays by emitting a -particle. How many neutrons and protons does the nucleus have after emitting the -particle? neutrons protons A 136 88 B...
Conceptual Example 5 provides background for this problem. A hole is drilled through a copper plate whose temperature is 11 C. (a) When the temperature of the plate is increased, will the radius of...
You and your team are asked to determine the hearing safety parameters for a loud experiment. Since the sound will persist for only a short time, the allowed intensity level that will not result in...
Iram has 12 different DVDs of which 7 are films, 3 are music videos and 2 are documentaries. a. How many different arrangements of all 12 DVDs on a shelf are possible if the music videos are all next...
You and your team are exploring an antiquated research facility in the mountains of southern Argentina that had been abandoned in the 1960s. You come to a giant locked door that has no visible...
Boron is an element in Group 13 of the Periodic Table. a. Boron has two isotopes. What do you understand by the term isotope? b. State the number of i protons, ii neutrons and iii electrons in one...
You and your team are designing a tunable, single-tone, acoustic emitter. One end of a string is connected to a post on the top of a frictionless inclined plane. The string supports a mass at rest...
A certain windmill produces an average of 0.50 MW of electrical power during the late evening hours when energy consumption is at a low (a four-hour span). An industrial capacitor (the BC125) has a...
A hydrogen atom (Z = 1) is in the third excited state, and a photon is either emitted or absorbed. Concepts: (i) What is the quantum number of the third excited state? (ii) When an atom emits a...
An astronomer is measuring the electromagnetic radiation emitted by two stars, which are both assumed to be perfect blackbody emitters. For each star she makes a plot of the radiation intensity per...
Rays of light coming from the sun (a very distant object) are near and parallel to the principal axis of a concave mirror. After reflecting from the mirror, where will the rays cross each other at a...
Which of the following statements about effective nuclear charge for the outermost valence electron of an atom is incorrect? (i) The effective nuclear charge can be thought of as the true nuclear...
The AsAs bond length in elemental arsenic is 2.48 . The ClCl bond length in Cl 2 is 1.99 . (a) Based on these data, what is the predicted AsCl bond length in arsenic trichloride, AsCl 3 , in which...
The solubility of two slightly soluble salts of M 2+ , MA and MZ 2 , are the same, 4 10 -4 mol/L. (a) Which has the larger numerical value for the solubility product constant? (b) In a saturated...
For each statement, indicate whether it is true or false. (a) The solubility of a slightly soluble salt can be expressed in units of moles per liter. (b) The solubility product of a slightly soluble...
As shown in Figure 14.24, the first step in the heterogeneous hydrogenation of ethylene is adsorption of the ethylene molecule on a metal surface. One proposed explanation for the sticking of...
Which of these statements about alloys and intermetallic compounds is false? (a) Bronze is an example of an alloy. (b) Alloy is just another word for a chemical compound of fixed composition that is...
The following data are for a simple steam power plant as shown in Fig. P4.118. State 6 has x6 =0.92 and velocity of 200 m/s. The rate of steam flow is 25 kg/s, with 300 kW of power input to the pump....
The power stroke in an internal combustion engine can be approximated with a poly tropic expansion. Consider air in a cylinder volume of 0.2 L at 7MPa, 1800 K, shown in Fig. P6.111. It now expands in...
Draw dot-and-cross diagrams for the ions in the following ionic compounds. Show only the outer electron shells. a. Potassium chloride, KCl b. Sodium oxide, Na 2 O c. Calcium oxide, CaO d. Magnesium...
The solute in Problem 23-8 is initially dissolved in 80.0 mL of water. It is then extracted six times with 10.0-mL portions of chloroform. Find the fraction of solute remaining in the aqueous phase....
The success of an airline depends heavily on its ability to provide a pleasant customer experience. One dimension of customer service on which airlines compete is on-time arrival. The file...
Many service companies collect data via a follow- up survey of their customers. For example, to ascertain customer sentiment, Delta Air Lines sends an email to customers immediately following a...
Consumer Research, Inc., is an independent agency that conducts research on consumer attitudes and behaviors for a variety of firms. In one study, a client asked for an investigation of consumer...
a. i. On analysis a hydrocarbon was found to contain 0.72 g of carbon and 0.18 g of hydrogen. What is the empirical formula of the hydrocarbon? ii. Further investigation showed that the relative...
Robs Market (RM) is a regional food store chain in the southwest United States. David White, Director of Business Intelligence for RM, would like to initiate a study of the purchase behavior of...
TourisTopia Travel (Triple T) is an online travel agency that specializes in trips to exotic locations around the world for groups of ten or more travelers. Triple Ts marketing manager has been...
A stone is dropped into a fast-flowing stream. It does not fall vertically because of the sideways push of the water (Figure 4.7). a. Calculate the resultant force on the stone. b. Is the stone in...
The diagram shows the arrangement of the outer electrons only in a molecule of ethanoic acid. a. Name the different elements found in this compound. b. What is the total number of atoms present in...
Calculate the force needed to give a car of mass 800 kg an acceleration of 2.0 m s 2 .
a. A sound wave travelling through air can be represented as shown in the diagram. Which distance, A, B, C, or D, represents: i. one wavelength? ii. The amplitude of the wave? b. The cone of a...
The Earth takes one year to orbit the Sun at a distance of 1.5 10 11 m. Calculate its speed. Explain why this is its average speed and not its velocity.
A snail crawls 12 cm in one minute. What is its average speed in mm s 1 ?
A car travels one complete lap around a circular track at a constant speed of 120 km h 1 . a. If one lap takes 2.0 minutes, show that the length of the track is 4.0 km. b. Explain why values for the...
An object falls at terminal velocity in air. What overall conversion of energy is occurring? A. Gravitational potential energy to kinetic energy B. Gravitational potential energy to thermal energy C....
Which quantity has the same unit as the rate of change of momentum? A. Acceleration B. Energy C. Weight D. Work
Two balls, each of mass 0.50 kg, collide as shown in Figure 6.6. Show that their total momentum before the collision is equal to their total momentum after the collision. before after 2.0 m s-1 3.0...
A snooker ball strikes a stationary ball. The second ball moves off sideways at 60 to the initial path of the first ball. Use the idea of conservation of momentum to explain why the first ball cannot...
The activity of the enzyme amylase can be measured at a particular temperature by placing a sample into a Petri dish containing starch-agar (a starch-agar plate). Starch-agar is a jelly containing...
Calculate the mean drift velocity of electrons in a copper wire of diameter 1.0 mm with a current of 5.0 A. The electron number density for copper is 8.5 10 28 m 3 .
Two inhibitors of the same enzyme, inhibitor A and inhibitor B, were investigated to discover if they were competitive or non-competitive. In order to do this, the rate of reaction of the enzyme was...
If a 10 cm long piece of string was packed into a 5 cm long tube, the packing ratio would be 2 (2 cm of string per cm of tube). The packing ratio is a useful measure of the degree of compactness...
Figure 8.28, page 176, shows the pressure changes in the left atrium, left ventricle and aorta throughout two cardiac cycles. Make a copy of this diagram. Figure 8.28 a. i. How long does one heart...
A student made drawings of four blood cells as shown in the figure. The correct identification of the cells is: granular cytoplasm 2 nucleus nucleus nucleus 3.
A car is travelling round a bend when it hits a patch of oil. The car slides off the road onto the grass verge. Explain, using your understanding of circular motion, why the car came off the road.
Show that an alternative equation for the centripetal acceleration is a = 2 r.
An toy truck of mass 0.40 kg travels round a horizontal circular track of radius 0.50 m. It makes three complete revolutions every 10 seconds. Calculate: a. Its speed b. Its centripetal acceleration...
Rearrange the statements below to produce a flow diagram showing the steps involved in producing bacteria capable of synthesising a human protein such as human growth hormone (hGH). 1. Insert the...
Use the Periodic Table shown below to help you. Write isotopic symbols for the following neutral atoms: The Periodic Table of the Elements a. Bromine-81 b. Calcium-44 c. Iron-58 d. Palladium-110....
The table shows the atomic number and boiling points of some noble gases. a. Use ideas about forces between atoms to explain this trend in boiling points. b. Xenon forms a number of covalently bonded...
Calculate the energy in eV of an X-ray photon of frequency 3.0 10 18 Hz. To answer questions you will need these values: Speed of light in a vacuum c = 3.00 10 8 m s 1 Planck constant h = 6.63 10...
The table lists bond lengths and bond energies of some hydrogen halides. a. What is the relationship between the bond length and the bond energy for these hydrogen halides? b. Suggest why the bond...
a. Outline the theory of the PET scanner. b. It is suggested that a scanner could be designed using the annihilation of a proton and an antiproton. Calculate: i. The energy released in the...
Look at the Periodic Table in Figure 10.2. Figure 10.2 a. Which element is found in Period 4, Group 17? b. The relative atomic masses of tellurium (Te) and iodine (I) are 128 and 127, respectively....
A particle of mass 2 kg is fired up a smooth slope of length 4m, with initial speed 10ms -1 , which is inclined at 30 above the horizontal. The bottom of the slope is at the same level as horizontal...
The rate of the following reaction between hydrogen peroxide (H 2 O 2 ) and iodide ions can be monitored using sodium thiosulfate and starch indicator: 2H + (aq) + H 2 O 2 (aq) + 2I (aq) 2H 2 O(l)...
The asymmetric bar shown has a weight of 7.6 N and a centre of gravity that is 0.040 m from the wider end, on which there is a load of 3.3 N. It is pivoted a distance of 0.060 m from its centre of...
A girl is riding a bicycle at a constant velocity of 3.0 m s 1 along a straight road. At time t = 0, she passes her brother sitting on a stationary bicycle. At time t = 0, the boy sets off to catch...
A medical researcher is conducting a study to test the effectiveness of a drug designed to lower cholesterol levels. She randomly selects a sample of 100 males and 100 females.
At 10 C ice changes to water. H 2 O(s) H 2 O(l) H = +6.01 kJ mol 1 a. Explain why the entropy change of the system is positive. b. The entropy change for the system is +22.0 J K 1 mol 1 . Calculate...
Diffusion in a gas is the random motion of particles involved in the net movement of a substance from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration. The process of diffusion also...
Spud, Inc., a manufacturer of gourmet snacks, employs activity-based costing. The budgeted data for each of the activity cost pools is provided below for the year 2022. Estimated Estimated Use of...
A student is trying to make an accurate measurement of the wavelength of green light from a mercury lamp. The wavelength of this light is 546 nm. Using a double-slit of separation 0.50 mm, the...