it takes a genius to answer this question?

Question

If you are at 6000 feet in elevation and you get a bottle and collect the thin air from that elevation in an air tight bottle and then go down to a 1000 foot elevation where the air is thick and warmer, would the air in the bottle be cooler because there is less pressure in it and less kinetic energy or would it be the same temperature as the outside air at 1000 feet?

Answer 1

The temperature of the bottle and its contained air would warm up to the ambient temperature, through normal heat transfer. The thicker or more insulated the bottle, the slower the rate of temperature change.

The normal adiabatic lapse rate of 6.5 degrees C for every 1,000 meters would usually apply, but there are exceptions to this including temperature inversions. If the bottle is rigid, then the pressure in the bottle would stay at 6000 feet. If the bottle is flexible, such as a plastic water bottle bottle, then the outside pressure would squeeze the bottle so there would be less pressure differential.

Answer 2

It doesn't take a genius, just a mind reader. This is an incomplete question. You don't say whether the bottle is opened at the lower altitude, whether it is insulated, or exactly what the experiment is. Are you asking about typical high vs low altitude temperatures? Who knows? If unopened and perfectly insulated it would obviously be at the temperature it was when collected, never mind less pressure and less kinetic energy. (Note less pressure does not imply less kinetic energy.) If it is uninsulated and unopened, it will reach equilibrium temperature with the 1000 foot ambient. What else can one say?
PS: Answer 2 has an error. If you open it to a higher pressure ambient the air already inside will compress and rise in temperature.

Answer 3

We assume: 1. The bottle was sealed at 6000 feet; 2. The bottle is a perfect insulator. While the seal is in place, the air remains at 6000 feet pressure altitude and at the same temperature. We open the bottle; air will flow in to equalize the pressure. The air will expand adiabatically, so it will cool; the final temperature will be cooler than the 1000' outside temperature unless by chance the high level air was quite warm when captured.

Answer 4

Well, if it were a plastic bottle, the bottle would slowly collaspe as the elevator dropped to 1000 feet. I have worked at 6000 feet and brought back and empty, sealed water bottle. When I got back home (420 ft) the bottle was pretty squished.

Answer 5

If you have a closed system Bottled container the pressure and temperature in bottle has no effect or change as long its airtight, but if you put the air that was collected at higher elevation was put in a balloon it will shrink the balloon to a smaller volume. Barometric air pressure at 6000 ft. is roughly 11.69 psia(pounds per square inich absolute), the air at sea level is 14.64 psia.

Answer 6

The bottle would break diff in pressure.

Answer 7

Cooler till thermal equilibrium is achieved.

Answer 8

an equilibrium must be achieved...therefore it must have the same temperature as the outside air

Answer 9

id look for a trash can way back at 5500

Answer 10

no, because it's still an infinitesimal amount.