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What is the derivative of distance with respect to time.

The derivative of distance with respect to time is velocity.
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Why does a small puddle of water evaporate at room temperature, even though the temperature is way below the boiling point of water?

To understand why the water evaporates, we need to know what we mean when we say something has a certain temperature. Temperature is proportional to the average kinetic energy of the microscopic molecules in...
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A ball with radius 10cm is filled with an ideal gas at pressure 2*(10)^5Pa and temperature 300K. The volume of the gas is changed at constant pressure so that the radius of the ball is reduced with 1cm. Find the amount of gas and the new temperature

In a question like this, you will be given that the molar gas constant is R = 8.31JK -1 mol -1 . However, committing this to memory will be helpful. We should use the ideal gas law: PV = nRT but the volume o...
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A Positron has the same mass, but opposite charge to an electron. A Positron and electron are orbiting around each other separated by 1μm, in a stable circular orbit about their centre of mass, as a result of electrostatic attraction. Calculate the period

State Coulomb's law:F=(1/4πE 0 ) (qQ/d 2 )Since the distance separating the charges is twice the radius of the orbit relabel d to 2r and the charges are equal and opposite:F= -(1/16πƐ 0 ) (q/r) 2 Notice that...
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the moon takes 27.3 days (2.36x10^6s) to orbit the earth . Calculate its distance from the earth . Take the mass of the earth to be 5.975x10^24kg.

Use the set formula T 2 =(4Pi^2/GM)R^3 and rearrange for r^3 to give r 3 = T 2 GM/ 4Pi 2 then insert values : r 3 = (2.36x10 6 ) 2 x 6.67x10 -11 x 5.975x10 24 / 4PI 2 = 5.62....x10 25 Then take the cube root...
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