Can someone help me with my homework(states of matter)?

Ok I'll start you off, but only if you can answer the following question


How do you define and or differentiate gas, liquid and solid?

Re: Can someone help me with my homework(states of matter)?
This would be much more enjoyable if you told us how little time there was left until you had to turn in your assignment. Seriously, look through your textbook a little more...I am more than a wee bit certain; that, the answer can be found there.

Will you credit us when you turn in your homework?

Otherwise, I ain't doing it.

If this is a chemistry question, you should be able to find the answers in you rtextbook.

What will you do on the SAT?

Let's think about water. Water can be in all three of those states of being. How would you classify water when it is ice or steam? Are there any other common materials you can think of that are like that?

Re: Can someone help me with my homework(states of matter)?


Are you still with us?

Undoubtedly our helpfulness has left hal213 too stunned to speak .

I wonder if the answer has gelled yet.

First maybe catch all the possible states (is it seven or nine now - try Wikipedia bose einstein condensates, solids, liquids, gasses, plasmas etc)

Then consider substances that lie across states - like glass as a extremely slow moving liquid with no fixed melting point or crystaline structure or glass as a solid. I'd class it as a liquid barely, but many folk would say its definitionally unclear.

Or if you want to get really tricky realise that baryonic matter and energy are equivalent, so play with quantum uncertainity

Have a Pepsi and forget this crap!