Physics Technology Update (4th Edition)

Published by Pearson
ISBN 10: 0-32190-308-0
ISBN 13: 978-0-32190-308-2

Chapter 30 - Quantum Physics - Problems and Conceptual Exercises - Page 1077: 96

Answer

$4.308Km/s$

Work Step by Step

We can find the required speed as follows: $v=\sqrt{\frac{5KT}{m}}$ We plug in the known values to obtain: $v=\sqrt{\frac{5(1.38\times 10^{-23}J/K)(450K)}{(1.008)(1.66\times 10^{-27}Kg)}}$ $v=4.308\times 10^3m/s=4.308Km/s$
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