PHY 101 Week 2 Learning Team Assignment Textbook Exercises

PHY 101 Week 2 Learning Team Assignment Textbook Exercises Recent

Chapter 11

12. Why don’t equal masses of golf balls and Ping-Pong balls contain the same number of balls?

14. Which contains more atoms: 1 kg of lead or 1 kg of aluminum?

22. To become a positive ion, does an atom lose or gain an electron?

24. Helium is an inert gas, meaning that it doesn’t readily combine with other elements. What five other elements would you also expect to be inert gases? (See the periodic table.)

 

26. A carbon atom, with a half-full outer shell of electrons— four in a shell that can hold eight—readily shares its electrons with other atoms and forms a vast number of molecules, many of which are the organic molecules that form the bulk of living matter. Looking at the periodic table, what other element do you think might play a role like carbon in life forms on some other planet?

Chapter 14

24. How does a plasma differ from a gas?

26. What can be produced when a plasma beam is directed into a magnet?