Topics in Aerosol Physics (ATSC5880) Homework

Coagulation, critical diameter, Khler curves, evaporation, absorption

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.