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How do you calculate the half-life of a first-order reaction? The rate constant, k, for a first-order reaction is equal to 4.3 x 10-4 s-1. What is the half-life for the reaction? a. 1.2 x 103 s b. 1.6 x 103 s c. 2.4 x 103 s d. 3.0 x 10-4 s ...
In an example of a simple chemical reaction, one atom of potassium (K) can react with one atom of chlorine (Cl) to form a molecule of potassium chloride (KCl) with nothing left over. But this is not because potassium atoms and chlorine atoms have the same mass. Instead, it is because...
Coulomb's law made it possible to calculate the electrostatic force between any two charged objects, but it didn't reveal the fundamental nature of those charges. What was the source of the positive and negative charges? As we'll see in the next section, scientists were able to answer tha...
However, ionizing radiation is so high in energy it can break chemical bonds -- meaning it can charge (or ionize) an atom that interacts with it. At a lower energy, it may strip off a couple of electrons. At a higher energy, it can destroy the nucleus of an atom. This means that ...
1. Calculate the half-life (in s) of a first-order reaction if the concentration of the reactant is 0.0655 M 18.4 s after the reaction starts and is 0.0173 M 41.2 s after the reaction starts. 2. Supp A reaction is first order in A. If the rate c...
However, solid oxide fuel cells are very stable when in continuous use. In fact, the SOFC has demonstrated the longest operating life of any fuel cell under certain operating conditions. The high temperature also has an advantage: Thesteamthat the fuel cells produce can be channeled into turbine...
Introduced semi-classical model of atom represents the wave functions of bounded in atom electrons in form of hydrogen-like atomic orbitals with explicitly defined effective charge numbers. The hydrogen-like electron orbitals of constituting condensed matter atoms are used to calculate the matrix ...
Coulomb's law made it possible to calculate the electrostatic force between any two charged objects, but it didn't reveal the fundamental nature of those charges. What was the source of the positive and negative charges? As we'll see in the next section, scientists were able to answer tha...
Using the same first-principles electron and phonon energies and matrix elements on fine meshes, we calculate the carrier mobility by solving the linearized Boltzmann equation using a full-band relaxation-time approximation60 and further estimate spin diffusion length based on the drift-diffusion model...