(a) Hydrogen molecules (molar mass is equal to 2.016 g/mol) have vrms equal to 193 m/s. What is the temperature? (b) Much of the gas near the Sun is atomic hydrogen (H rather than H2). Its temperature would have to be 1.5 × 107 K for the rms speed vrms to equal the escape velocity from the Sun. What is that velocity?

(a) Hydrogen molecules (molar mass is equal to 2.016 g/mol) have vrms equal to 193 m/s. What is the temperature? (b) Much of the gas near the Sun is atomic hydrogen (H rather than H2). Its temperature would have to be 1.5 × 107 K for the rms speed vrms to equal the escape velocity from the Sun. What is that velocity?

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Chapter13: Temperature, Kinetic Theory, And The Gas Laws

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