Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics 8th Edition - Solutions by Chapter

Usually narrow and consisting of highly deformed sediments. They occur where oceanic lithosphere is being subducted beneath the margin of a continent.

An instrument that measures atmospheric pressure.

A low, elongate ridge of sand that parallels the coast.

A cloud of glowing gas excited by ultraviolet radiation from hot stars.

An igneous rock texture in which the crystals are roughly equal in size and large enough so that individual minerals can be identified with the unaided eye.

Tiny bits of particulate matter that serve as surfaces on which water vapor condenses.

A region where the rigid plates are moving apart, typified by the midoceanic ridges.

A break in a rock mass along which movement has occurred.

A vent in a volcanic area from which fumes or gases escape.

The concept of an Earth-centered universe.

A climate that has no monthly means above freezing and supports no vegetative cover except in a few scattered high mountain areas. This climate, with its perpetual ice and snow, is confined largely to the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica.

Unequal surface heating that causes localized pockets of air (thermals) to rise because of their buoyancy.

A center of low pressure characterized by cyclonic winds.

The boundary between the mesosphere and the thermosphere.

Drops of water that fall from clouds that have a diameter of at least 0.5 millimeter (0.02 inch).

The steep, leeward slope of a sand dune; it maintains an angle of about 34 degrees.

Slow, downslope flow of water-saturated materials common to permafrost areas.

The columnlike form that grows upward from the floor of a cavern.

A measure of stellar distance.

Radiation with a wavelength from 0.4 to 0.7 micrometer.