This document outlines 5 homework problems related to topics in aerosol physics:
1) Calculate coagulation half-lives for aerosol particles of varying number concentrations.
2) Determine critical diameters and water molecules for different supersaturation ratios.
3) Graph Köhler curves showing droplet growth for varying NaCl concentrations.
4) Calculate evaporation times for water and alcohol droplets over a range of humidities.
5) Derive an expression for bulk absorption coefficient from Maxwell's equations for a propagating scalar wave with a complex refractive index.
This document outlines 5 homework problems related to topics in aerosol physics:
1) Calculate coagulation half-lives for aerosol particles of varying number concentrations.
2) Determine critical diameters and water molecules for different supersaturation ratios.
3) Graph Köhler curves showing droplet growth for varying NaCl concentrations.
4) Calculate evaporation times for water and alcohol droplets over a range of humidities.
5) Derive an expression for bulk absorption coefficient from Maxwell's equations for a propagating scalar wave with a complex refractive index.
This document outlines 5 homework problems related to topics in aerosol physics:
1) Calculate coagulation half-lives for aerosol particles of varying number concentrations.
2) Determine critical diameters and water molecules for different supersaturation ratios.
3) Graph Köhler curves showing droplet growth for varying NaCl concentrations.
4) Calculate evaporation times for water and alcohol droplets over a range of humidities.
5) Derive an expression for bulk absorption coefficient from Maxwell's equations for a propagating scalar wave with a complex refractive index.
Unless otherwise specified assume p = 1 g cm-3, T=293 K, P=780 hPa. 1) Calculate the 1/2 life of aerosol populations with d=0.01 m for No=[10, 102, 103, 105, 107 cm-3]. Provide answers in seconds, days, and years, where appropriate. 2) Calculate critical diameter and corresponding number of water molecules for supersaturation ratios of 3.5 (293 K) and 4.5 (273 K). Calculate the critical supersaturation ratio for growth of a 0.4 nm water molecule. 3) Calculate and graph Khler curves for m = 0, 10-18, 10-16, 10-14 g NaCl, i=2. 4) Calculate evaporation times for: a) 1.0 and 10 m diameter water droplets for a range of relative humidities from 0 99%. What is the range of droplet temperatures for these relative humidities? b) 1.0 and 10 m diameter isopropyl alcohol droplets. c) the isopropyl alcohol droplets that were generated by the VOAG when it was used to produce 2, 4, and 8 m droplets of diethyl hexal sebacate. 5) A solution to Maxwells equations is a plane scalar wave propagating in the x direction, = a exp[ i (kx t)], where k=2/. Recall phase speed = v = /k and refractive index m = c/v, where c = speed of light. Show that for a complex refractive index, the wave intensity 2 is attenuated as a function of distance and define the bulk absorption coefficient.