Lecture #4:  Units for Pressure/Density/Temperature;  Application
of Ideal Gas Law;  Concepts of Atmospheric Stability
Friday, 26 January 2001

Text Reading for Lecture #4

Units and Dimensions (Appendix pages A1-A3)
Temperature (page 27)
Pressure (pages 210-214)
Ideal gas law 212-213 (Try a fun experiment here)
Basic concepts of stability (first 5 paragraphs on page 160)

Hand-Written Lecture Notes from Class

Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, Page 4, Page 5, Page 6, Page 7, Page 8, Page 9, Page 10, Page 11

Supplement:  Units Conversions