The "karat" is a dimensionless unit that is used to indicate the proportion of gold in a gold-containing alloy. An alloy that is one karat gold contains a weight of pure gold that is one part in twenty-four. What is the volume of gold in a 20.0 karat gold necklace whose weight is 1.09 N?
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Physics - DrRuss, Friday, April 6, 2007 at 1:24am
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The implication in the question is to find out how much of the weight is gold, so do this using the fraction given.
Convert the weight to mass using F=ma and I would use a=9.8 m s^-2 unless your question/text book has a different value.
Now convert the mass to volume using density=mass/volume. The density of gold you will need to get from a data book, wikipedia, or maybe it is in the question/text book.
Please clarify this explanation.
Could post what you have done so far?
F = ma
F/a = m
20.0/ 9.81 = 2.0387
density = mass/volume
volume = mass / 19300
volume = 0.0001056
This answer is incorrect. I am confused!
in your
mass=weight/g you put 20 for weight, That is not correct, it was given as about one newton.
Correct that, then 20/24 of that mass is gold.
Take the mass of gold, divide by the density of gold (look it up), and you have volume of gold.
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