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How does moving air work?

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Anonymous

14y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

Air flows from high pressure to low pressure, because the pressure difference acts as a force on the air molecules.

A more complicated answer involves the inherent motion of the air molecules due to heat, how compressing a volume can make them move even faster, and how air moves from one location to another because the faster molecules in one region spread into a slower region, and at the same time spread their energy as they collide with molecules at the boundary of the regions, in order to equalize a combination of thermodynamic properties involving the speed and mass of the molecules. This combination is called the 'pressure', so this answer is really the same as the first answer, but just a tad more thorough.

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