Hot Air Rotation: Can Heat Create Constant Motion?

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Imagine a closed container (full of air) that allowed sunlight or other heat inside the bottom half, but block or reflected this heat on the top half.

Would this create a consant rotation of air being heated and going up, then cooling off and falling back down?
 

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shaden said:
Imagine a closed container (full of air) that allowed sunlight or other heat inside the bottom half, but block or reflected this heat on the top half.

Would this create a consant rotation of air being heated and going up, then cooling off and falling back down?

Sure would.
 
shaden said:
Imagine a closed container (full of air) that allowed sunlight or other heat inside the bottom half, but block or reflected this heat on the top half.

Would this create a consant rotation of air being heated and going up, then cooling off and falling back down?

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