To: Constitution Day
Boris' "impossible" physics question #2:
Suppose you could drill a hole directly to the center of the Earth and somehow keep it open. Further assume it is totally insulated.
Air rushes in and eventually equilibrates. What is the pressure at the bottom of the hole?
No, you CANNOT use the ideal gas law.
Don't come to me for the solution--I can't solve it.
--Boris
18 posted on
01/03/2004 1:41:31 PM PST by
boris
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To: boris
Well, at the core, there'd be zero effective gravity, so I'd imagine that the air pressure would be rather low, since for some distance above the core, I suspect the effective "source" of gravity would be upward, reducing any downward pressure at the air at the bottom of the hole.
19 posted on
03/08/2004 8:05:56 AM PST by
Don Joe
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