General Chemistry 10th Edition

Published by Cengage Learning
ISBN 10: 1-28505-137-8
ISBN 13: 978-1-28505-137-6

Chapter 5 - The Gaseous State - Exercises - Page 205: 5.12

Answer

$218.67\frac{m}{s}$

Work Step by Step

We can find the root square speed as $u=\sqrt{\frac{3RT}{M}}$ We plug in the known values to obtain: $u=\sqrt{\frac{3\times 8.31\times 295}{153.8\times 10^{-3}}}=218.67\frac{m}{s}$
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