Adi1008 wrote:I believe that it would be , where is the number density and is the cross sectional area of an air molecule (going to make the rough assumption that diatomic oxygen and nitrogen have relatively similar sizes).Name wrote:Adi1008 wrote: How far does an air molecule (assume at STP) travel on average before it hits another air molecule, in meters?22 liters in a mole 6E23/22 is 3E22. Assuming a 1 dimentional movement the cube root of 3E22 is about 7E7. Because a liter is 1/10 of a meter, 7E8 air molecules in a straight line 1 meter. 1/7E8 is around E-9 so -9I saw both mentiones of -9 and -7 as a answer (3 nm and 68). I think it might be 68 but I can't understand the math behind it. Can you confirm what the answer is?
is about (you can calculate this using the Ideal Gas Law if you don't have it memorized). The cross sectional area of diatomic oxygen or nitrogen is about .
Doing the calculation would give a fermi answer of about -7.
Ok thanks! Also oops forgot to set up a question
Lets say you gained the ability to harvest salt from the ocean on a mass scale. If you take the salt and compacted it into a 1 meter radius sphere, what is it's escape velocity