Physics for Scientists and Engineers: A Strategic Approach with Modern Physics (3rd Edition)

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Chapter 18 - The Micro/Macro Connection - Exercises and Problems - Page 523: 38

Answer

$20m$

Work Step by Step

We can determine the required height as follows: $h=\frac{\frac{5}{2}k_BT}{mg}$ We plug in the known values to obtain: $h=\frac{\frac{5}{2}\times 1.38\times 10^{-23}\times 300}{5.31\times 10^{-23}\times 9.8}$ This simplifies to: $h=20m$
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