The temperature inside a supernova explosion is said to be 2.00×1013 K .      (a) What would the average velocity vrms of hydrogen atoms be?(b) What is unreasonable about this velocity? (c) Which premise or assumption is responsible?

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The temperature inside a supernova explosion is said to be 2.00×1013 K .      (a) What would the average velocity vrms of hydrogen atoms be?
(b) What is unreasonable about this velocity? 
(c) Which premise or assumption is responsible?

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