Temperature equilibrium. Hydrostatic equilibrium. Atmospheric chemistry. Escape of atmosphere. Circulation patterns.
Please read the following in Carroll & Ostlie. Note that you only need to read the subsections of 10.1 and 10.2 listed here; the other sections are more relevant to stellar structure.
|The Derivation of the Hydrostatic Equilibrium Equation|
|10.2||Pressure Equation of State|
|The Derivation of the Pressure Integral — The Ideal Gas Law in Terms of the Mean Molecular Weight (through equation 10.11)|
|19.3||The Physics of Atmospheres|
|The Temperatures of the Planets — The Chemical Evolution of Planetary Atmospheres — The Loss of Atmospheric Constituents — Gravitational Separation of Atmospheric Constituents — Circulation Patterns — The Complexities of Weather Systems|
Problem Set #4: Due 20 September 2012
Joshua E. Barnes
(barnes at ifa.hawaii.edu)
11 September 2012