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020 = Filling Up and Falling Down

A Problem Squared

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The Effect of Diluting the Gas on the Atmospheric Concentration

As you add more gas and dilute the carbon, you're going to increase the height of the atmosphere. The sphere is getting bigger and bigger, right? There's just more area to cover as such. But we can calculate this because we can calculate the volume of a sphere. We can work out the change in volume, how much it changes the concentration. And we can also work out how much it Changes: distance light would have to travel to get through the atmosphere. Okay. So I had to decide how big the atmosphere is. It starts super dense down where we live and then gets less dense as you go up. That mass behind that would be super difficult. Yeah. Atmospheric

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