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To: lepton
...and those are hardly the only variables.

My calculations are (as I'm guessing you know) derived from the Ideal Gas Law. And pumping a football with air sure ain't an "ideal" situation!

I do think my calculation has some merit as a guideline. However, it wouldn't (and shouldn't) be accepted as hard proof. The only way to be sure here, from a legal standpoint, is to repeat the entire process under the same conditions as existed on that day.

89 posted on 01/23/2015 6:41:21 AM PST by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: Leaning Right

I do think my calculation has some merit as a guideline.


As do I. Merely noting that it that is a starting point with many additional potential variables.

To amuse yourself, assume a rigid ball at 1 atmosphere instantaneously raised to +13 PSI, and calculate how much the temperature change could be. That’s a lot of energy.


93 posted on 01/23/2015 6:54:26 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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