Imagine that you have air in a sealed glass container that has a volume of 1 liter. The pressure inside the container is 1013 hPa and the temperature is 20◦C. You now inject cloud droplets into the chamber without letting any air leak out. The droplets have a radius of 10 micrometers, and you inject a concentration of drops that is typical of what you find in a cloud (200 drops per cm3). Will there be a change in the gas pressure? If so, by what amount? Please provide a calculation. What does your answer tell you about the presence of particles in the atmosphere and their potential influence on pressure?

Imagine that you have air in a sealed glass container that has a volume of 1 liter. The pressure inside the container is 1013 hPa and the temperature is 20◦C. You now inject cloud droplets into the chamber without letting any air leak out. The droplets have a radius of 10 micrometers, and you inject a concentration of drops that is typical of what you find in a cloud (200 drops per cm3). Will there be a change in the gas pressure? If so, by what amount? Please provide a calculation. What does your answer tell you about the presence of particles in the atmosphere and their potential influence on pressure?

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Chapter14: Fluid Mechanics

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