EVSC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Shortwave Radio, Heat Capacity, Latent Heat
12 Dec 2017
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Dominant components of the atmosphere: nitrogen and oxygen. Changes in atmospheric density, pressure and temperature with altitude as altitude increases, density, pressure, and temperature decreases. Temperature/heat temperature is the average kinetic energy of an object heat is the transfer of energy. Electromagnetic radiation travels through space in the form of waves it can travel through empty space and thus does not need an intervening medium to transmit it. Maximum wavelength function of temperature maximum wavelength at which a body emits radiation depends on its temperature the hotter the body, the shorter the wavelength. Radiation balance an accounting of the incoming and outgoing components of radiation. They are balanced over long time periods and over the earth as a whole but is unevenly distributed. Shortwave this is the radiation that the sun emits and comes into the earth through traveling through space, unimpeded, and hitting the edge of the atmosphere.
