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Friday, November 20, 2015

Some physics problem (2)

Problem:

Few materials have as great value as gold. You have inherited an old gold jewelry, but will pledge it to get money for a new car. Using Arkhimedes' law you find that jewelry has a volume corresponding to 7.10-^5 m^3 Gold has a price per kilo of NOK. 207 000, -. How much money can you get for the jewelry ?

Solution:

The price can be found by volume x density x unit price.

The volume is given, the price is given, the problem is the density.

So I looked up the density in Wikipedia as follow:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold

Density near r.t.19.30 g/cm3

To solve the puzzle, we need to also convert the units.

1kg/m3=1000g/m3=1000g/(100cm)3=1000g/1000000cm3=1g/1000cm3.

Therefore, 1g/cm3=1000kg/m3

Now we have all the pieces, the answer is

7×105×19.30×1000×207000=279657NOK

By the way, NOK is not a valid currency code?

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