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eal gas. 2. Molecules in the Earth's atmosphere. If n is the concentration of molecules at the surface of the Earth, M the mass of a molecule, and g the gravitational acceleration at the surface show that at constant temperature the total number of molecules in the atmosphere is (75) with r measured from the center of the Barth; here R is the radius of the Earth. The integral diverges at the upper linit, so that N cannot be bounded and the atmosphere cannot be in equilibrium. Molecules, particularly light molecules, áre al. ways escaping from the atmosphere. itational field Consider a column

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