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Is there a difference between the red sky in the morning and in the evening?
It certainly has a different feeling to it, but
does the temperature or earth's rotation or the clouds
or anything else really make it two different physical
phenomena or at least different colors?
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How much does temperature affect the time of sunrise?
Please forgive me if this is a dumb question, or if my understanding of basic physics is wrong. Please feel free to correct me.
As I understand it, if the Earth didn't have any atmosphere, then the ...
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What causes the perceived intensity of the sun to change on a short timescale?
I was inspired by this question to ask, what causes the "beating down" feeling of the sun to vary day to day? While the linked post explains why the sun feels hotter in the summer than in the winter, ...
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If Earth had gravity and atmosphere, but no Sun, will Temprature change with altitude?
Gravity pulls down the atmosphere thus creating higher Atmospheric Pressure close to the surface,
This pressure is adding Force to air molecules,
and since Heat is essentially adding force to ...
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Why it is colder in mountains, at high altitudes?
The conventional answer is to say that "lower temperature follows from lower pressure because temperature is average molecular energy (average speed)". For instance "Temperature is a measure of ...
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