Thank you very much!
About the atmosphere "bleeding", I think that could be neglected because as you say it is not the most important part of the problem
Thank you! But do I not need the Gravitational constant for Pluto to do that calculation?
If found an approximation on Wikipedia "Escape velocity"
"For a body with a spherically-symmetric distribution of mass, the barycentric escape velocity ve from the surface (in m/s) is approximately...
Homework Statement
Pluto is believed to have a radius of 1500 km, a mass of 1.5x10^22 kg, and a surface temperature of 55 K. Could Pluto support an atmosphere of methane, CH4?
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First some information:
The problem is from a book...
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A man is standing on a rotating plate (rotates without friction). In case A he is hold 1weight in each hand (straight out) with the mass m and he is rotatin with angular velocity omega_0.
Then he moves his arms down so they are parallell to the body (case B) and increases...
[SOLVED] Equipartition theorem
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If the chlorine molecule at 290 K were to rotate at the angular frequency predicted by the equipartition theorem what would be the average centripetal force?
(The atmos of Cl are 2*10^-10 m apart and the mass of the chlorine atom 35.45 a.m.u)...
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The entropy of an ideal paramagnet is given by
S = S_0 - CU^2
where U is the energy, which can be positive or negative, and C is a positive constant. Determine the equation for U as a funtion of T and sketch your result.
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\frac{1}{T} =...
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... Show that the entropy of the system in the microcanonical ensemble is
W = \frac{N!}{n!(N-n)!}3^n
and obtain an expression for the temperature of the system. ...
N = number of molecules
n = number of molecules in orthostate
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I'm trying to show a formula for an ideal gas, but I don't get the right results.
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For an ideal gas PV = nRT where n is the number of momles. Show that the heat transferred in an infinitesimal quasistatic process of an ideal gas can be written as
dQ = \frac{C_V}{nR}VdP...