"Suppose your hair grows at the rate of 1/30 inch per day. Find the rate at which it grows in nanometers per second. Since the distance between atoms in a molecule is on the order of 0.1 nm, your answer suggests how rapidly atoms are assembled in this protein synthesis."
I'm getting the answer 7.32 E -5 nm/second, but the software I enter my answers into is telling me it's wrong. What is the answer?
2007-09-02 13:14:47 · 2 answers · asked by justme 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
1 / 30 inch per day becomes
2.54 / 30 cms per day and 2.54 / (30 x 24 x 60 x 60) cms per second. 24 x 60 x 60 is the number of seconds in a day.
Multiply that by 10^7 to give you nanometers per second. The answer which I got is 9.8 nm/s approximately.
2007-09-02 13:23:44 · answer #1 · answered by Swamy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
9.799*10^-18 nm/s
2007-09-02 20:22:20 · answer #2 · answered by Rutgers101 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋