Blundell Thermal Physics · Problem 1.3

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Physics — Statistical Mechanics · avogadro-number

Problem

(a) How many water molecules are there in your body? (Assume that you are nearly all water.) (b) How many drops of water are there in all the oceans of the world? (The mass of the world's oceans is about 102110^{21} kg. Estimate the size of a typical drop of water.) (c) Which of these two numbers from (a) and (b) is the larger?

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