GEO 303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Molecular Mass, Solar Wind, Runaway Greenhouse Effect
21 Dec 2017
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Lecture 15: cyrovolcanism, light, & basic equations: cryovolcanism. Liquid water cannot exist in a vacuum. Liquid water is denser than water ice, so the ice gets pushed/squeezed up to the. This can be supplemented by direct measurement using . The color of light depends on its wavelength. Radiation w/ wavelengths shorter or longer than are visible to the human eye also exist. Hot objects (the sun) emit light over a continuous range of wavelengths (called. When light shines through a gas, electrons in the individual atoms may absorb light of. The wavelengths correspond to photons w/ energy equivalent to the difference in black-body emitters ) specific wavelengths energy of different electron . If a continuous light source is examined after it has passed through a gas, a number of dark lines ( absorption lines ) will be apparent, corresponding to the photon energies absorbed by electrons in the gas.
