A buckyball consists of 60 carbon atoms arranged in the form of a hollow ball. Say that we illuminate a free, initially non-rotating buckyball with visible light with the intensity of sunlight (1000 W / m2) whose photons all have their spins aligned with their direction of motion. About how long after the illumination begins will the buckyball (on the average) be spinning a million times per second, assuming it absorbs all the light falling on it? (Hints: look in a periodic table to see the mass of a mole of carbon atoms, and remember that Avogadro's number is 6.02 x 1023. Estimate the average wavelength of visible light. You should find that you don't need to know the buckyball's radius.)

A buckyball consists of 60 carbon atoms arranged in the form of a hollow ball. Say that we illuminate a free, initially non-rotating buckyball with visible light with the intensity of sunlight (1000 W / m2) whose photons all have their spins aligned with their direction of motion. About how long after the illumination begins will the buckyball (on the average) be spinning a million times per second, assuming it absorbs all the light falling on it? (Hints: look in a periodic table to see the mass of a mole of carbon atoms, and remember that Avogadro's number is 6.02 x 1023. Estimate the average wavelength of visible light. You should find that you don't need to know the buckyball's radius.)

Foundations of Astronomy (MindTap Course List)

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Author:Michael A. Seeds, Dana Backman

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Chapter7: Atoms And Spectra

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