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- From: norm@inqmind.bison.mb.ca (Norman P. Paterson)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: PLEASE HELP!
- Message-ID: <im7LuB3w165w@inqmind.bison.mb.ca>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 18:16:41 CST
- References: <20NOV199208500726@csa3.lbl.gov>
- Organization: The Inquiring Mind BBS 1 204 488-1607
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- sichase@csa3.lbl.gov (SCOTT I CHASE) writes:
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- > In article <q1TiuB3w165w@inqmind.bison.mb.ca>, norm@inqmind.bison.mb.ca (Norm
- >
- > >- Take a aluminium ball with a voulume of 100 cu/meters. Say that this
- > >ball is indestructible. The ball is filled with helium gas on the ground
- > >(the gas is 99.9% pure). Now, take this ball to an alititude of 100,000
- > >feet. What would the internal pressure be of the ball (or helium)?
- >
- > Since you have chosen an aluminum ball rather than a bag, the total volume
- > of the helium will remain unchanged. So the equation of state, PV = NRT
- > will give you Pfinal/Pinitial = Tfinal/Tinitial, i.e., the only thing
- > you have to worry about is that it is cold up there and the pressure of the
- > gas will decrease proportionately.
- >
- > If you had used an expandable bag instead, then the volume would change.
- > The cold will naturally make the gas volume constract at constant pressure,
- > but the atmospheric pressure is not constant. In fact, it decreases so
- > much at 20 miles up that the volume of the gas in the bag will shoot way
- > up in spite of the temperature decrease.
- >
- > -Scott
- > --------------------
- > Scott I. Chase "It is not a simple life to be a single cell,
- > SICHASE@CSA2.LBL.GOV although I have no right to say so, having
- > been a single cell so long ago myself that I
- > have no memory at all of that stage of my
- > life." - Lewis Thomas
-
- Thanks Scott - this is indeed good news for me!
- Norm.
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