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What is the microsopic reason why hot air rise? [duplicate]

The common explanation for why hot air rises is a macroscopic one. That is that the hot air is higher pressure, lower density, and therefore gravity affects it differently than the surrounding cold ...
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Why do we feel weightlessness in water but not on land?

When we draw a Newtonian free body diagram of a man standing still on land, we draw force g and the reaction force. In water when floating still, we still have force g but we also have the reaction ...
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Relationship between gravity and density

So I have recently found that flat earthers believe gravity is not real and everything goes down because of densities, obviously, if this were true things would float up as our air is not very dense, ...
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