College Physics (4th Edition)

Published by McGraw-Hill Education
ISBN 10: 0073512141
ISBN 13: 978-0-07351-214-3

Chapter 13 - Problems - Page 498: 38

Answer

The mass of one gold atom is $3.27\times 10^{-25}~kg$

Work Step by Step

A gold atom consists of 79 protons and 118 neutrons. The mass of one gold atom is $197~u$ We can convert this mass to units of $kg$: $m = 197~u\times \frac{1.66\times 10^{-27}~kg}{1~u} = 3.27\times 10^{-25}~kg$ The mass of one gold atom is $3.27\times 10^{-25}~kg$
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