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PHY 355 — ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSICS I

BSc BSc Physics · Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

The Homosphere and Heterosphere . The Temperature - Related Regions. The Chemisphere and Ionosphere. Composition of the Homosphere . Physics of Air/Water-Vapour Mixture . Hydrostatic Pressure and "Dry" stability.. Stability of saturated Air: "Wet Lapse Rate". Chemical Dynamic. Expressions of Gaseous Concentrations. Conservation of mass, hydrodynamics. The Euler Equation; Compressible and Incompressible Fluids. The vorticity Equation. The isopycnic Vorticity Theorem. The Navier-Stokes Equation. Bernoulli's Equation for an immiscible Fluid in Steady Motion. Viscous flow around a sphere; stoke's law

Credits
2
Level
Level 300

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