This might be a bit more of an engineering question, but I'm calculating air density drop-off with altitude, and I'm having some problems calculating the pressure (I'll run through my method). This has been very useful in explaining, but the last bit lost me a little.
So we start with an ideal gas, then:
pV=nRT
ρ=pMRT
Then define temperature using the Universal Standard Atmosphere lapse rate, T=T0−Lh
Now at this point I'm a bit stuck. Wikipedia suggests the following equation:
p=p0(1−LhT0)gMRL
Which, when calculated, provides values within a 5% tolerance - but where has it come from? I can't find any reference to its source or how it was derived. Can anyone help?
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