On a warm summer day, a large mass of air (atmospheric pressure 1.01 X 105 Pa) is

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On a warm summer day, a large mass of air (atmospheric pressure 1.01 X 105 Pa) is heated by the ground to a temperature of 26.0oC and then begins to rise through the cooler surrounding air. (This can he treated approximately as an adiabatic process; why'?) Calculate the temperature of the air mass when it has risen to a level at which atmospheric pressure is only 0.850 X 105 Pa. Assume that air is an ideal gas, with y = 1.40. (This rate of cooling for dry. rising air, corresponding to roughly 1oC per 100 m of altitude, is called the dry adiabatic lapse rate.)
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Physics

ISBN: 978-0077339685

2nd edition

Authors: Alan Giambattista, Betty Richardson, Robert Richardson

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