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Chapter 19 Problem 35E

Question

On a warm summer day, a large mass of air (atmospheric pressure \(1.01 \times 10^{5}\) Pa) is heated by the ground to \(26.0^{\circ}\)C and then begins to rise through the cooler surrounding air. (This can be treated approximately as an adiabatic process; why?) Calculate the temperature of the air mass when it has risen to a level at which atmospheric pressure is only \(0.850 \times 10^{5}\) Pa. Assume that air is an ideal gas, with \(\gamma=1.40\). (This rate of cooling for dry, rising air, corresponding to roughly \(1^{\circ}\)C per 100 m of altitude, is called the dry adiabatic lapse rate.)

Solution

Solution 25E Step 1: An adiabatic process means, if the system changes it’s condition very slowly or when the entropy of the system remains constant. Here the entropy does not change and remains constant, so the process is adiabatic. dS 1 dQ = T -----------------(1) This implies the inverse of temperature is the rate of change of entropy with respect to the heat added to the system. Here heat is continuously added but the entropy does not change and the temperature too. The system releases the heat to the surrounding. So, it is an adiabatic process.

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Title University Physics 13 
Author Hugh D. Young, Roger A. Freedman
ISBN 9780321675460

On a warm summer day, a large mass of air (atmospheric

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