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Photons of light scatter off molecules, and the distance you can see through a gas is proportional to the mean free path of photons through the gas. Photons are not gas molecules, so the mean free path of a photon is not given by Equation20.3, but its dependence on the number density of the gas and on the molecular radius is the same. Suppose you are in a smoggy city and can barely see buildingslocalid="1648634576764" role="math" 500away.

a. How far would you be able to see if all the molecules around you suddenly doubled in volumelocalid="1648634590441" ?

b. How far would you be able to see if the temperature suddenly rose from 20Cto a blazing hot500Cwith the pressure unchanged?

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a.The distance for the molecules around you suddenly doubled in volume is300m.

b.The distance for the temperature suddenly rose from20Cto a blazing hot1500Cwith the pressure unchanged is3000m.

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01

Calculation for distance of the molecules around you suddenly doubled in volume  (part a)

a.

volume of the space is V.

where Nparticles of dust are scattered in.

If we assume a spherical shape.We have ,

V2=2V1

43蟺谤23=243蟺谤13

The new radius is ,

r2=r123

The radius's dependence on the mean free path, on the other hand, is inversely proportional to its square.

Then the new distance will be,

d2=d1123)2=d12-23

Substituting the first distance,

d2=5002-23=310m

02

Calculation for distance of temperature changed (part b)

b.

Volume in number density,

pV=NkBTNV=pkBT

Substitute in the expression for the mean free path, we will have

1p/kBTr2=kBpr2T

This means that the distance is proportional to the temperature.

d2=d1T2T1localid="1648635077835" d2=d1T2T1

The temperature was increased fromlocalid="1648635092520" role="math" 293Ktolocalid="1648635099956" 1773K.

The new line of sight will be,

localid="1648635112249" d2=5001773293=3000m

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