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Bill wrote:
"If I bought a barometer in Denver, or worse yet Breckenridge, while on
vacation and set it on my mantel at home (approx. 608 ft above sea level)
the thing would peg unless adjusted? "
Yep!
Or you could take your barometer to the top of the Sears Tower and determine
its height by dropping it over the side... All this barometer abuse will not
be complete if I don't include a link to the famous physics "barometer fable".
So here it is: http://www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars/baro.htm
(the text at the above link is from www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/angelpin.htm. This
web site was not responding just now, so I have placed a copy of a cache of
it at the above address)
Frank R
[ ] Mystic, Connecticut
[X] Chicago, Illinois
