A sheet of printer paper has a thickness of 0097 mm If you s
A sheet of printer paper has a thickness of 0.097 mm. If you stacked up a mole of sheets of paper, how tall would the stack be in kilometers? If you pointed the stack in the appropriate direction, which of the following could you get the top of the stack closest to: the moon (384,400 km from Earth), the sun (150 million km from Earth), or the Alpha Centauri star system (41 trillion km from Earth)?
Solution
I mean 1 mole is avagadro number = 6.023 * 10^23
so if we stack 1 mole number of papers the height = 6.023 *10^23 * 0.097 * 10^-3 m = 5.84 * 10^19 m
If you pointed the stack in the appropriate direction we could reach Alpha Centauri star system.
