{"id":40302,"date":"2020-10-20T02:30:33","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T02:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=40302"},"modified":"2020-10-20T02:30:34","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T02:30:34","slug":"geography-altitude-the-freezing-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/geography-altitude-the-freezing-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Geography: altitude: the freezing point"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about snow and ice on mountains: the tutor wonders about the height of freezing.<\/h2>\n<p>\nThe temperature at height is approximated by\n<p>\nT=T<sub>sea_level<\/sub> &#8211; 0.0065h,\n<\/p>\nh in metres, T in &#176;C.<\/p>\n<p>In a tropical place let&#8217;s imagine a sea-level temp of 32&#176;C. At what height will the temperature be 0?\n<\/p><p>\n0=32-0.0065h->0.0065h=32->h=4923m.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTherefore, Mount Kilimanjaro, at 5895m, has permanent snow on top:)<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nptel.ac.in\/content\/storage2\/courses\/101106041\/Chapter%202%20-Lecture%205%2020-12-2011.pdf\">nptel.ac.in<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.org\/encyclopedia\/kilimanjaro\/\">nationalgeographic.org<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about snow and ice on mountains: the tutor wonders about the height of freezing. The temperature at height is approximated by T=Tsea_level &#8211; 0.0065h, h in metres, T in &#176;C. In a tropical place let&#8217;s imagine a sea-level temp &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/geography-altitude-the-freezing-point\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Geography: altitude: the freezing point<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40302"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40304,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40302\/revisions\/40304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}