Consider a gas in a cubical container 22 cm on a side. How many states lie within ±0.01% of the momentum magnitude p=1.6×10−23  kg⋅m/sp=1.6×10−23⁢  kg⋅m/s (a plausible momentum for a nitrogen molecule in a gas at room temperature)?     The number of states that lie within ±0.01% of the momentum magnitude p=1.6×10−23  kg⋅m/sp=1.6×10−23⁢  kg⋅m/s is  ______× 1025.

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Consider a gas in a cubical container 22 cm on a side. How many states lie within ±0.01% of the momentum magnitude p=1.6×10−23  kg⋅m/sp=1.6×10−23⁢  kg⋅m/s (a plausible momentum for a nitrogen molecule in a gas at room temperature)?  

 

The number of states that lie within ±0.01% of the momentum magnitude p=1.6×10−23  kg⋅m/sp=1.6×10−23⁢  kg⋅m/s is  ______× 1025.

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