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Physics: Post your doubts here!

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Can someone please give me notes on this states of solid liquid gas and evaporation boiling condensation melting freezing etc... because i get confused with these questions and i can't find it in the text book :/
 
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Yess! Please could you explain?
It's evaporation because evaporation is a process which depends on the velocity of the water molecules. If the molecules at the surface possess enough energy then they are able to escape the forces that hold the molecules together and then escape as vapour. But the question states that all the molecules have the same speed, hence evaporation cannot occur
 
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Voltmeter normally has very high resistance to make sure that current doesn't flow through it when it measures the pd across an object. It cannot be A because since the voltmeter is connected in series , the current would have to pass through the voltmeter before it can reach the ammeter. Very high resistance so no current passes through.
 
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It's evaporation because evaporation is a process which depends on the velocity of the water molecules. If the molecules at the surface possess enough energy then they are able to escape the forces that hold the molecules together and then escape as vapour. But the question states that all the molecules have the same speed, hence evaporation cannot occur
So then boiling, condensation and melting don't depend on the speed of molecules? ... Then what do they depend on?
 
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use s=ut + 1/2 at^2 for both motions (X-Y and Y-Z)
this will give you these:

X-Y
40 = 12u + 72a

Y-Z
40 = 6v + 18a (note that the u for this motion is the v from the motion in X-Y)

So use s = 1/2 (u+v) t
and rearrange to make v the subject and substitute the values for X-Y motion so you get v = 6.67 - u

Substitute v into the Y-Z equation

Y-Z
40 = 6(6.67 - u)+ 18a
40 = 40 - 6u + 18a
0 = -6u + 18a

Form simultaneous equations:
40 = 12u + 72a
0 = -12u + 36a (multiply the Y-Z eqn by 2 to cancel the u's)

this will give a = 0.37 = A
 
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So then boiling, condensation and melting don't depend on the speed of molecules? ... Then what do they depend on?
1. Boiling: occurs at a fixed temperature, that is the boiling point of the liquid. Its a process that occurs throughout the liquid. Basically for boiling, you are heating up the entire liquid. The heat is being distributed evenly throughout the liquid and the speed of the molecules increases together. (Same for melting, since melting and boiling both absorb heat). Hence, at any temperature the speed of the molecules are the same.
2. But for evaporation, the process only occurs on the surface of the liquid. The molecules at the surface are absorbing heat from the surroundings and some of them will have enough energy to break their intermolecular forces and escape.
3. Condensation is mainly when hot vapour touches a cool surface and forms water droplets.
 
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