Hurricanes can involve winds in excess of 120 km/h at the outer edge. Make a crude estimate

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Hurricanes can involve winds in excess of 120 km/h at the outer edge. Make a crude estimate of
(a) The energy, and
(b) The angular momentum, of such a hurricane, approximating it as a rigidly rotating uniform cylinder of air (density 1.3 kg/m3) of radius 100km and height 4.0km?
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Physics

ISBN: 978-0077339685

2nd edition

Authors: Alan Giambattista, Betty Richardson, Robert Richardson

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