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A mountain climber found that the air pressure at the base of a mountain is 75.0cm of mercury while at the top is 50cm of...

      

A mountain climber found that the air pressure at the base of a mountain is 75.0cm of mercury while at the top is 50cm of mercury. Given that the average density of air is 1.25kg/m^3 and the density of mercury is 13600kg/m^3. Calculate the height of the mountain.

  

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joseph
Pressure difference due to column of air =pressure different due to mercury column
Thus hapag=hmpmg
Ha =[(75.0 -50.0)x13600 x10]/(100x1.25x10)
Ha=2720m

joseph rimiru answered the question on October 25, 2017 at 20:21


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