Chapter 8 - Answer Key

Page 261 Quick Check Page 274 8.1 Review Questions

1a. 10 km/h 2. Speed = c
1b. 15 km/h 3a. 13 a
2a. 25 km/h 3b. 38.0 m
2b. 0 km/h
4. 1.15to
2c. 5 km/h
5. v = 0.87c
3. 0 km/h 6. 0.866c or approximately 0.9c
4. 10 km/h 7. c, light from a star takes time to reach our
5. Assigning a positive value to velocities to the eyes on earth.
right in the figure.
8. v = 0.995c
Wind: +20 km/h
9. 9 × 10 J
10
Bird: -5km/h
Boat: -15 km/h 10a. 4.1× 10 J
15

Earth: 0 km/h 10b. 2.0 × 10 years!

5

River: -5km/h
Page 263 Quick Check Page 287
1. Radioactive decay
1. Zero, which is constant! 2. + nucleus with orbiting e-
2. Same as Figure 8.1.4, but the parabola is 3. In nucleus with + charge; number of protons
elongated = atomic number
Page 270 Practice Problems 8.1.1 4. No, it splits into a proton and an electron
1. 6.6 s
2. 10 s Page 290 Quick Check
3. 50 s 1. Same number of protons, different number
2 of neutrons
4. 1.1× 10 s 2. Artificially made isotopes or natural isotopes
that are unstable
Page 268 Practice Problems 8.1.2 3. 238 = mass number (protons and neutrons);
1. 78 m 92 = atomic number (protons only)
2. 50 m 4

3. 4.5 m 4a. 2 He
0
4b. −1
e
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4c. Pb
1a. 0.10 mc 82
210
1b. 0.50 mc 4d. 84
Po
1c. 0.87 mc
1d. 0.9999 mc
1e. mc
2a. Approximately 0.10 mc
2b. 0.58 mc
2c. 1.8 mc
2d. 71 mc
2e. p approaches infinity

F = Δp / Δt
3.
F → ∞ since Δp → ∞

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