Question: Pressure on Venus. At the surface of Venus the average temperature is a balmy 460oC due to the greenhouse effect (global warming!), the pressure is

Pressure on Venus. At the surface of Venus the average temperature is a balmy 460oC due to the greenhouse effect (global warming!), the pressure is 92 Earth-atmospheres, and the acceleration due to gravity is 0.8948Earth. The atmosphere is nearly all CO2 (molar mass 44.0 g/mol) and the temperature remains remarkably constant. We shall assume that the temperature does not change at all with altitude.

(a) What is the atmospheric pressure 1.00 km above the surface of Venus? Express your answer in Venus-atmospheres and Earth-atmospheres.
(b) What is the root mean- square speed of the CO2 molecules at the surface of Venus and at an altitude of 1.00 km?

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