Sentences with phrase «decreased mean free path»
The low altitude molecules have decreased mean free path, higher collision rate, thus increased temperature.
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We'll be enormously generous here — the mean free path at room temperature is order of a few tens of nanometers, but it increases as the pressure decreases with height by an order of magnitude or so.
Your assertion that decreasing the mean free photon path causes the atmosphere to warm is quite simply odd.