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A “global warming” problem
Suppose that a someone decided to calculate, for a given amount of heat added into a planet's atmosphere(an ideal gas), how much is the corresponding temperature rising of the atmosphere, $\Delta T$. ...
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How long does it take an iceberg to melt in the ocean?
This is a quantitative question. The problem is inspired by this event:
On August 5, 2010, an enormous chunk of ice, roughly 97 square miles (251 square kilometers) in size, broke off the Petermann ...
