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Given is one mole of oxygen gas at 20 C. (Molar mass of O is 28g).

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Given is one mole of oxygen gas at 20 C. (Molar mass of O is 28g).
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(a) Use Maxwell Boltzmann distribution to write the case-specific full expression for the number of oxygen molecules having speeds between 520.5m/s and 521.5m/s. (The expression has to contain data specific for this problem – but there is no need to finish the calculations!)
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