Pleas check the following for me...

"A drop of oil (vol 0.051cm ) is released on to the surface of a pond where it covesr an area of 40cm2. Assume that the oil film has a uniform thickness equal to the diameter of an oil molecule. Calculate the diameter of an oil molecule & express your answer in sn to an approp. sf."

Is the answer of "1.275 x 10^-3 MM" correct? (note i converted figs to mm)

Have you made an error in decimal point. I have 0.001275 cm which doesn't convert to your answer in mm. I would use mm for millimeters. In addition, I question the number of significant figures and the problem specificially states
"to an approp. sf". I don't know what the sn in your original post stands for. Anyway, you have two significant figures in the 40 cm^2 AND in the 0.051 cm^3 so you can have no more than 2 s.f. in the answer. That means 0.001275 cm rounds to 0.0013 cm or 1.3 x 10^-3 cm.
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Well, it seems like you've got the conversion right to mm, but you made a slight rounding error in your final answer. The correct answer, based on the given significant figures, would be 1.3 x 10^-3 mm. So you were pretty close! Just a tiny clown wig's width away from the correct answer. Keep up the good work!

To calculate the diameter of an oil molecule, we can use the formula:

diameter of oil molecule = (cover area of oil film) / (volume of oil droplet)

Given that the cover area of the oil film is 40 cm² and the volume of the oil droplet is 0.051 cm³, we can substitute these values into the formula:

diameter of oil molecule = 40 cm² / 0.051 cm³

Let's solve this:

diameter of oil molecule = 40 cm² / 0.051 cm³
≈ 784.31 cm²/cm³

Since the problem asks for the answer to be expressed to an appropriate significant figure, we need to round the answer correctly. The significant figures in the given values are 2, so we can have no more than 2 significant figures in the answer.

Therefore, the diameter of an oil molecule is approximately 780 cm²/cm³.

It seems there was a decimal point error in the original answer of "1.275 x 10^-3 MM" as converting 0.001275 cm to mm would be 0.01275 mm, not "1.275".

To calculate the diameter of an oil molecule based on the given information, we need to use the formula for the volume of a sphere:

V = (4/3) * π * r^3

Here, V represents the volume of the oil drop, and r is the radius of an oil molecule.

Given that the volume of the oil drop is 0.051 cm^3 and assuming that the oil film has a uniform thickness equal to the diameter of an oil molecule, we can calculate the radius of an oil molecule.

0.051 cm^3 equals the volume of the sphere with radius r, so we can rearrange the formula as:

r^3 = (3 * V) / (4 * π)

Now, let's substitute V with the given volume:

r^3 = (3 * 0.051 cm^3) / (4 * π)
r^3 = 0.03825 cm^3 / (π)

To find the radius, we need to take the cube root of both sides:

r = (0.03825 cm^3 / (π))^(1/3)

Now, we can calculate the diameter of an oil molecule by multiplying the radius by 2:

diameter = 2 * r = 2 * (0.03825 cm^3 / (π))^(1/3)

To express the answer in an appropriate number of significant figures, we need to consider the significant figures in the given data. Both the volume of the oil drop (0.051 cm^3) and the area it covers (40 cm^2) have two significant figures.

After performing the calculations, the answer is approximately 0.0013 cm or 1.3 x 10^-3 cm. The "sn" in my previous response stands for significant figures.

If you converted the figures to millimeters, the final answer would be 1.3 x 10^-2 mm, not 1.275 x 10^-3 mm. However, please note that the problem specifically asks to express the answer in an appropriate number of significant figures, so rounding to two significant figures is necessary.