Physics Technology Update (4th Edition)

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Chapter 17 - Phases and Phase Changes - Problems and Conceptual Exercises - Page 608: 79

Answer

$2.0\times 10^{22}~molecules$

Work Step by Step

We know that the mass of the drop is $m=density\times volume$ $m=(10^6g/m^3)\frac{4}{3}\pi (0.52\times 10^{-2}m)^3$ Molecular mass of $H_2O$ is given as $m_{H_2O}=\frac{M}{N_A}$ $m_{H_2O}=\frac{18.015g/mol}{6.022\times 10^{23}molecules/mol}=2.99\times 10^{-23}g/molecule$ Now, the number of molecules in a rain drop can be calculated as $n=\frac{m}{m_{H_2O}}$ We plug in the known values to obtain: $n=\frac{(10^6g/m^3)\frac{4}{3}\pi (0.52\times 10^{-2}m)^3}{2.99\times 10^{-23}g/molecule}$ $n=2.0\times 10^{22}~molecules$
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