You pull your t-shirt out of the washing machine and note that 1493 particles have become attached, each of which could be either an electron or a proton. Your t-shirt has a net charge of −3.12  10-17 C. (a) How many electrons are attached to your t-shirt? (b) What is the mass of the particles attached to your t-shirt?

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You pull your t-shirt out of the washing machine and note that 1493 particles have become attached, each of which could be either an electron or a proton. Your t-shirt has a net charge of −3.12  10-17 C.

(a) How many electrons are attached to your t-shirt?


(b) What is the mass of the particles attached to your t-shirt?

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(b)    215 electrons and 111 protons
 1.41e-24
What is the charge of an electron? What is the charge of a proton? C

 

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