You have completed several dives using SCUBA apparatus and are ready for a deep dive in seawater. You have arranged to have tanks of heliox prepared for your dive. Heliox is a mixture of helium and oxygen. Oxygen at pressures much greater than 1 atm is toxic to lung cells, so you want to keep the partial pressure of oxygen from your diving equipment at 1 atm or less during your dive. You will be diving at a depth of h = 51.8 m. What ratio of helium to oxygen, by weight, should you request for the mixtures in your tanks? The partial pressure of a gas in a mixture is the pressure the gas would have if it existed by itself in the same volume. Dalton's law of partial pressures tells us that the total pressure of a mixture of gases is equal to the sum of the partial pressures of the individual gases. (The density of seawater is 1,030 kg/m³. Assume the air pressure at sea level is 1 atm.) WHE WO2

You have completed several dives using SCUBA apparatus and are ready for a deep dive in seawater. You have arranged to have tanks of heliox prepared for your dive. Heliox is a mixture of helium and oxygen. Oxygen at pressures much greater than 1 atm is toxic to lung cells, so you want to keep the partial pressure of oxygen from your diving equipment at 1 atm or less during your dive. You will be diving at a depth of h = 51.8 m. What ratio of helium to oxygen, by weight, should you request for the mixtures in your tanks? The partial pressure of a gas in a mixture is the pressure the gas would have if it existed by itself in the same volume. Dalton's law of partial pressures tells us that the total pressure of a mixture of gases is equal to the sum of the partial pressures of the individual gases. (The density of seawater is 1,030 kg/m³. Assume the air pressure at sea level is 1 atm.) WHE WO2

College Physics

11th Edition

ISBN:9781305952300

Author:Raymond A. Serway, Chris Vuille

Publisher:Raymond A. Serway, Chris Vuille

Chapter1: Units, Trigonometry. And Vectors

Section: Chapter Questions

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