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The temperature inside a supernova explosion is said to be 2.00×1013 K2 . \text{00} \times \text{10}^{\text{13}} \text{ K}. (a) What would the average velocity vrmsv_{\text{rms}} of hydrogen atoms be? (b) What is unreasonable about this velocity? (c) Which premise or assumption is responsible?

OpenStax College Physics 2e, 13.6 Humidity, Evaporation, and Boiling, exercise 27

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