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Chapter 12 Problem 62P

Question

Problem 62P

A hot-air balloon has a volume of 2200 m3. The balloon fabric (the envelope) weighs 900 N. The basket with gear and full propane tanks weighs 1700 N. If the balloon can barely lift an additional 3200 N of passengers, breakfast, and champagne when the outside air density is 1.23 kg/m3, what is the average density of the heated gases in the envelope?

Solution

Solution 62P

Step 1:

Introduction :

In this question, we have hot air balloon , we need find the average density of the heated gas in the envelop of the balloon

Data given

Volume

Weight of envelope  

Weight of basket and propane

Weight of passenger it can support

Density of air outside balloon  

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Title Sears and Zemansky's University Physics with Modern Physics 13 
Author Hugh D. Young; Roger A. Freedman; A. Lewis Ford
ISBN 9780321696861

A hot-air balloon has a volume of 2200 m3. The balloon

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