JEE Advanced 2020 Physics question
A hot air balloon is carrying some passengers, and a few sandbags of mass 1 kg each so that its total mass is 480 kg. Its effective volume giving the balloon its buoyancy is . The balloon is floating at an equilibrium height of 100 m. When number of sandbags are thrown out, the balloon rises to a new equilibrium height close to 150 m with its volume remaining unchanged. If the variation of the density of air with height from the ground is , where and m, the value of is .
Answer: 4
Solution
At equilibrium the weight equals the buoyant force: . At 100 m: . At 150 m: .
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