Part IV

Appendices

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 Appendix I
Useful constants

Symbol SI units
Absolute zero temperature –273.2°C
Acceleration due to gravity g 9.81 m s–2
Avogadro constant NA 6.023 × 1023
Base of natural logarithms e 2.718
Boltzmann constant k 1.38 × 10–23 J K–1
8.62 × 10–5 eV K–1
Electron charge e 1.60 × 10–19 C
Electron mass me 9.11 × 10–31 kg
Faraday constant F 9.648 × 104 C mol–1
Gas constant R 8.31 J K–1 mol–1
Permeability of free space µo 4π × 10–7 H m–1
Permittivity of free space εo 8.85 × 10–12 F m–1
Planck constant h 6.63 × 10–34 J s
Proton mass mp 1.67 × 10–27 kg
Velocity of light in vacuo c 3 × 108 m s–1
Volume of perfect gas at STP 22.41 × 10–3 mol–1

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