How do I find the mass of an ejected electron?

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Ricky Ma DIS 4E
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How do I find the mass of an ejected electron?

Postby Ricky Ma DIS 4E » Thu Oct 11, 2018 8:47 pm

Light hits a sodium metal surface and the velocity of the ejected electron is 6.61 x 105 m.s-1. The work function for sodium is 150.6 kJ.mol-1.
Ek=0.5m.v^2
How do I find the mass of an ejected electron? Is it just the molar mass of sodium?

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Re: How do I find the mass of an ejected electron?

Postby Venya Vaddi 1L » Thu Oct 11, 2018 8:52 pm

I think you have to use the mass of an electron, which is 9.10938356 × 10-31 kilograms.

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Re: How do I find the mass of an ejected electron?

Postby Chem_Mod » Thu Oct 11, 2018 11:58 pm

The mass of the electron is a constant (see previous answer), but this will be given to you on the formula sheet. Electrons have the same mass, regardless of what element they belong to.

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Re: How do I find the mass of an ejected electron?

Postby John Kim Lec3Dis3L » Fri Oct 12, 2018 7:06 am

As the other posters said, electrons do not change their mass. For this class, you can just use 9.10938E-31 kg as your mass; any more accuracy would probably be overkill for our level of academia.


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