Homework

Ziyi Lin
September 2015

2.6

1.1

a


Nx =

1.2

40 me c
e2

W
=
f

8.8542 1012 4 0.109 1031 3 108

(1.67 1019 )2

3108
(0.6103 )2
6.7 108

= 1.6759 1012 m2

Assume that all of available gas phase C is in C II, which implies that Adust = 0, therefore the fractional
depletion of carbon in our problem is 0; since (X) = 1 10D(X) , D(X) = 0, which make sense because we
assume C II is all gas phase. This assumption does not agree very well with the expected average values in
figure 2.7 and table 2.2.

1.3

The assumption that all of the available gas phase carbon ins in C II is not very reasonable as the result
doesnt agree very well with the expected average value. Considering that only a tiny fraction of the hydrogen
column density toward Sco is atomic, it is unlikey that they will interact with C II density.

2.7
d (P ) = 10


Adust

mP
mH

H = 10


0.3

30.97376
1.00794

1.8 1021 = 1.6594 1026

d (P )
1.6594 1026
= 7.2148 104
=
d
2.3 1023