Lecture #3:  Ideal Gas Law, Pressure Changes, and Applications
Wednesday, 24 January 2001

Text Reading for Lecture #3

Gas law:  pages 212-213 (Try a fun experiment here)
Pressure and pressure gradient force:  pages 210-211
Pressure force of the wind:  page 249
Application:  The thunderstorm gust front (page 386).  See animated schematic here.

Hand-Written Lecture Notes from Class

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