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Thank you We sneak and here's your shmoop usually brought

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to you by the vacuum of space kind of like

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our brains right through physics smile right you know we're

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talking about All right so his face is mostly empty

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planets stars and clouds of gas or the exception not

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the rule If we average it all density of space

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material is about one molecule her cubic meter with a

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temperature of three point one Kelvin What the approximate pressure

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in the near vacuum of space and here are potential

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answer Well yeah outer space is kind of creepy when

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you think about it It's Just nothing Zip zero zilch

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That which can have a certain appeal whenever your dad

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starts talking about how tough things were back in his

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day Well floating along in space with nothing around for

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light years sounds pretty nice to us Well but we're

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not floating in space So let's take a look at

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the problem A problem like this calls for the ideal

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gas law Well the gas law states that pressure tons

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volume equals the number of molecules times the holtzman constant

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times the temperature in kelvin And we know we need

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to solve for pressure because well that's what problems asking

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for Still we can rearrange the equation solved for key

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and plug in our numbers Number of molecules is one

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and the volume is one cubic meter Ultimas constant is

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one point three eight one times ten to the negative

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Twenty third jules per kilogram I just tripped off tongue

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Does the temperature three point one kelvin and when we

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put it all together we find that the answer is

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four point two seven eight times ten to the negative

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twenty Third it means today is the correct answer Just

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remember space is pretty much the perfect vacuum Gia was 00:01:45.941 --> [endTime] a lot like our stomachs right now Time Four

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