{"id":320,"date":"2022-11-09T03:35:12","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T03:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/?p=320"},"modified":"2022-11-09T03:35:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T03:35:13","slug":"height-of-atmosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/height-of-atmosphere\/","title":{"rendered":"Height of atmosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"height-of-atmosphere\">Height of atmosphere<\/h3>\n\n\n<p>For calculating the height of atmosphere, we make use of the following assumptions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(i)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The value of g does not change appreciably up to a certain height.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(ii)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Temperature remains uniform throughout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(iii)       Although density of air decreases with height, we assume it to be uniform and take \u03c1 =1.3 kg m<sup>-3<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pressure exerted by h height of air column = Pressure exerted by 0.76 m of Hg<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>or&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; h \u03c1 g = 1.013 \u00d7 10<sup>5<\/sup> Pa<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>or           h = 1.013 \u00d7 10<sup>5<\/sup> Pa \/ (1.3 x 9.8) = 7951 m = 8 km.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In actual practice, both the density of air and the value of g decrease with height, so the atmospheric cover extends with decreasing pressure even beyond 100 km.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Height of atmosphere For calculating the height of atmosphere, we make use of the following assumptions: (i)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The value of g does not change appreciably up to a certain height. (ii)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Temperature remains uniform throughout. (iii) Although density of air decreases with height, we assume it to be uniform and take \u03c1 =1.3 kg m-3. &#8230; <a title=\"Height of atmosphere\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/height-of-atmosphere\/\" aria-label=\"More on Height of atmosphere\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[63],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321,"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions\/321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}