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18.3 Exercise 23

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A certain five cent coin contains 5.00 g of nickel. What fraction of the nickel atoms’ electrons, removed and placed 1.00 m above it, would support the weight of this coin? The atomic mass of nickel is 58.7, and each nickel atom contains 28 electrons and 28 protons.

OpenStax College Physics 2e, 18.3 Coulomb’s Law, exercise 23

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