On a day when the air temperature is 70°F, a fellow student reads the psychrometer in the physical science lab and tells you that with a wet-bulb depression of 3°F, the relative humidity is 83%. Would you agree? Explain.

On a day when the air temperature is 70°F, a fellow student reads the psychrometer in the physical science lab and tells you that with a wet-bulb depression of 3°F, the relative humidity is 83%. Would you agree? Explain.

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Problem 5E: On a day when the air temperature is 85F, the wet-bulb reading of a psychrometer is 70F. Find each...

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