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Gases and Plasmas. Earth’s Atmosphere. Balance of Gravity Energy More compressed at sea level than at higher altitudes Moon has no atmosphere. Magdeburg Hemispheres. Two teams of horses couldn't pull the evacuated hemispheres apart. Weight of Air. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Gases and PlasmasGases and Plasmas

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Earth’s AtmosphereEarth’s Atmosphere

Balance ofGravityEnergy

More compressed at sea level than at higher altitudes

Moon has no atmosphere

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Magdeburg HemispheresMagdeburg Hemispheres

Two teams of horses couldn't pull the evacuated hemispheres apart.

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Weight of AirWeight of Air

mass of air that would occupy a thin bamboo pole that extends 30 km up—to the “top” of the atmosphere—is about 1 kg.

This air weighs about 10 N.

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Weight of AirWeight of Air

weight of air bearing down on a one-square-meter surface at sea level is about 100,000 N

atmospheric pressure is about 105 N/m2, or about 100 kPa.

At sea level, 1 cubic meter of air has a mass of about 1 1/4 kilograms

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Check YourselfCheck Yourself

About how many kilograms of air occupy a classroom that has a 200-m2 floor area and a 4-m-high ceiling? (Assume a chilly 10°C temperature.)

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Check YourselfCheck Yourself

About how many kilograms of air occupy a classroom that has a 200-m2 floor area and a 4-m-high ceiling? (Assume a chilly 10°C temperature.)

The mass of air is 1000 kg. The volume of air is 200 m2 × 4 m = 800 m3; each cubic meter of air has a mass of about 1.25 kg, so 800 m3 × 1.25 kg/m3 = 1000 kg.

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Check YourselfCheck Yourself

Why doesn't the pressure of the atmosphere break windows?

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Check YourselfCheck Yourself

Why doesn't the pressure of the atmosphere break windows?

Atmospheric pressure is exerted on both sides of a window, so no net force is exerted on the window. If for some reason the pressure is reduced or increased on one side only, like when a tornado passes by, then watch out! Reduced outside air pressure created by a tornado can cause a building to explode.

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BarometersBarometers

Barometer – instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure

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Mercury BarometerMercury Barometer

The barometer “balances” when the weight of liquid in the tube exerts the same pressure as the atmosphere outside

Whatever the width of the tube, a 76-centimeter column of mercury weighs the same as the air that would fill a super-tall 30-kilometer tube of the same width

mercury is literally pushed up into the tube of a barometer by the weight of the atmosphere.

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VacuumVacuum

air pressure is repeatedly lowered by piston and valve action

best vacuums attainable with mechanical pumps are about 1 pascal.

Better vacuums, down to 10−8 Pa, are attainable with vapor diffusion or vapor jet pumps.

Sublimation pumps can reach 10−12 Pa. Greater vacuums are very difficult to attain

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Gas MoleculesGas Molecules Behavior of Gas Molecules Kinetic Theory Applet Gas molecules are

perpetually moving

Robert Boyle (1627-1691)

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Boyle’s LawBoyle’s Law

1 1 2 2PV PV

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Check YourselfCheck Yourself

A piston in an airtight pump is withdrawn so that the volume of the air chamber is increased three times. What is the change in pressure?

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Check YourselfCheck Yourself

A piston in an airtight pump is withdrawn so that the volume of the air chamber is increased three times. What is the change in pressure?

the pressure in the piston chamber is reduced to one-third. This is the principle that underlies a mechanical vacuum pump.

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Check YourselfCheck Yourself

A scuba diver 10.3 m deep breathes compressed air. If she were to hold her breath while returning to the surface, by how much would the volume of her lungs tend to increase?

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Check YourselfCheck Yourself A scuba diver 10.3 m deep breathes compressed

air. If she were to hold her breath while returning to the surface, by how much would the volume of her lungs tend to increase?

Atmospheric pressure can support a column of water 10.3 m high, so the pressure in water due to the weight of the water alone equals atmospheric pressure at a depth of 10.3 m. Taking the pressure of the atmosphere at the water's surface into account, the total pressure at this depth is twice atmospheric pressure. Unfortunately for the scuba diver, her lungs tend to inflate to twice their normal size if she holds her breath while rising to the surface. A first lesson in scuba diving is not to hold your breath when ascending. To do so can be fatal.

(Scuba is an acronym for Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus.)

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Buoyancy of AirBuoyancy of Air Archimedes' principle holds for

air just as it does for water:An object surrounded by air is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the air displaced.

a cubic meter of air at ordinary atmospheric pressure and room temperature has a mass of about 1.2 kilograms

its weight is about 12 newtons any 1-cubic-meter object in air

is buoyed up with a force of 12 newtons.

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Dirigibles & BlimpsDirigibles & Blimps

Large dirigible airships are designed so that when loaded they will slowly rise in air

their total weight is a little less than the weight of air displaced. Hindenberg used

hydrogen instead of helium

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Check YourselfCheck Yourself

Is there a buoyant force acting on you? If there is, why are you not buoyed up by this force?

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Check YourselfCheck Yourself

Is there a buoyant force acting on you? If there is, why are you not buoyed up by this force?

There is a buoyant force acting on you, and you are buoyed upward by it. You don't notice it only because your weight is so much greater.

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Check YourselfCheck Yourself

How does buoyancy change as a helium-filled balloon ascends?

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Check YourselfCheck Yourself

How does buoyancy change as a helium-filled balloon ascends?

If the balloon is free to expand as it rises, the increase in volume is counteracted by a decrease in the density of higher-altitude air.

So, interestingly, the greater volume of displaced air doesn't weigh more, and buoyancy stays the same.

If a balloon is not free to expand, buoyancy will decrease as a balloon rises because of the less-dense displaced air.

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Rising BalloonRising Balloon

(Left) At ground level the balloon is partially inflated.

(Right) The same balloon is fully inflated at high altitudes where surrounding pressure is less.

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Fluid FlowFluid Flow

The motion of a fluid in steady flow follows imaginary streamlines, represented by thin lines

Streamlines are visible when smoke or other visible fluids are passed through evenly spaced openings, as in a wind tunnel.

Streamlines are the smooth paths, or trajectories, of bits of fluid. One small bit of fluid follows along the same path as a bit of fluid

in front of it. The lines are closer together in narrower regions, where the flow

speed is greater.

Water speeds up when it flows into the narrower pipe.

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Bernoulli’s PrincipleBernoulli’s Principle

Internal pressure is greater in slower moving water in the wide part of the pipe, as evidenced by the more squeezed air bubbles.

The bubbles are bigger in the narrow part because internal pressure there is less.

Daniel Bernoulli

1700-1782

Where the speed of a fluid increases, internal pressure in the fluid decreases.

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Bernoulli’s PrincipleBernoulli’s Principle

Bernoulli's principle applies to a smooth, steady flow (called laminar flow) of constant-density fluid.

At speeds above some critical point, however, the flow may become chaotic (called turbulent flow) and follow changing, curling paths called eddies.

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Bernoulli ApplicationsBernoulli Applications

(a) The streamlines are the same on either side of a non-spinning baseball.

(b) A spinning ball produces a crowding of streamlines. The resulting “lift” (red arrow) causes the ball to curve as shown by the blue arrow.

Air pressure above the roof is less than air pressure beneath the roof.

The vertical vector represents the net

upward force (lift) that results from

more air pressure below the wing than

above the wing. The horizontal vector

represents air drag. Wing lift

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Bernoulli ApplicationsBernoulli Applications

Pressure is greater in the stationary fluid (air) than in the moving fluid (water stream). The atmosphere pushes the ball into the region of reduced pressure.

When you squeeze the bulb, air rushes across the open end of a tube that sticks into the perfume. This reduces pressure in the tube, whereupon atmospheric pressure on the liquid below pushes it up into the tube where it is carried away by the stream of air.

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Bernoulli ApplicationsBernoulli Applications

The troughs of the waves are partially shielded from the wind, so air travels faster over the crests.

Pressure there is therefore lower than down below in the troughs.

The greater pressure in the troughs pushes water into the even higher crests.

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PlasmaPlasma

Plasma – 4th phase of matter – electrified gas

Least common in everyday world Most prevalent in the universe – stars Also found in gas inside operating

fluorescent light tubes neon sign tubes vapor lights

MagnetoHydroDynamic Power