Recent content by kyle Bacon

Convection some posters have stated the whole reason that we have lapse rate in our atmosphere is due to adiabatic cooling and heating of convected parcels of air. Their logic is that no convection = no lapse. Are those people wrong? Radiation makes a lot of sense, but would could completely...

Ugh, so much maths... it eats my brain. After several months, It still doesn't make any sense why gravity wouldn't just cool gas particles as they move against it. Look at the Atmospheric Escape wiki page which says "The more massive the molecule of a gas is, the lower the average velocity...

I'm thinking that the Isothermal explanation has to be the right one. Everyone thinks that hydrostatic lapse is in conflict with the second law, except it seem the simple wiki for the second law which states: "over time, differences in temperature, pressure, and density tend to even out in a...

Ok, so a massive insulated box full of still air will be isothermal?

What is the scientific consensus on a static gas in an insulated box? Will its temperature vary or be uniform throughout?

Can you link the spreadsheet?

Well, I remember hearing that if Nazi Germany built the Volkshalle (gigantic dome structure) that it would of rained inside. Can that dome be classed as hydrostatic? Why would it rain inside?

Dave, Does that diagram hold true at night?

I read an article a day or so ago titled Hydrostatic Lapse, which makes the case for a phenomenon that I thought was well and truly confirmed; that gravity is responsible for the cooling of air with altitude. However I discover in the sequel article The Gemini Cycle that this phenomenon is...