1) Constant speed
2) Slowing down
3) Not moving
4) Speeding up
First,

where
is density,
is mass, and
is volume. We can compute the volume of the roll:


When the roll is unfurled, the aluminum will be a rectangular box (a very thin one), so its volume will be the product of the given area and its thickness
. Note that we're assuming the given area is not the actual total surface area of the aluminum box, but just the area of the largest face (i.e. the area of one side of the unrolled sheet of aluminum).
So we have

where
is the given area, so


If we're taking significant digits into account, the volume we found would have been
, in turn making the thickness
.
That's two different things it depends on:
-- surface area exposed to the air
AND
-- vapor already present in the surrounding air.
Here's what I have in mind for an experiment to show those two dependencies:
-- a closed box with a wall down the middle, separating it into two closed sections;
-- a little round hole in the east outer wall, another one in the west outer wall,
and another one in the wall between the sections;
So that if you wanted to, you could carefully stick a soda straw straight into one side,
through one section, through the wall, through the other section, and out the other wall.
-- a tiny fan that blows air through a tube into the hole in one outer wall.
<u>Experiment A:</u>
-- Pour 1 ounce of water into a narrow dish, with a small surface area.
-- Set the dish in the second section of the box ... the one the air passes through
just before it leaves the box.
-- Start the fan.
-- Count the amount of time it takes for the 1 ounce of water to completely evaporate.
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-- Pour 1 ounce of water into a wide dish, with a large surface area.
-- Set the dish in the second section of the box ... the one the air passes through
just before it leaves the box.
-- Start the fan.
-- Count the amount of time it takes for the 1 ounce of water to completely evaporate.
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<span><em>Show that the 1 ounce of water evaporated faster </em>
<em>when it had more surface area.</em></span>
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<u>Experiment B:</u>
-- Again, pour 1 ounce of water into the wide dish with the large surface area.
-- Again, set the dish in the second half of the box ... the one the air passes
through just before it leaves the box.
-- This time, place another wide dish full of water in the <em>first section </em>of the box,
so that the air has to pass over it before it gets through the wall to the wide dish
in the second section. Now, the air that's evaporating water from the dish in the
second section already has vapor in it before it does the job.
-- Start the fan.
-- Count the amount of time it takes for the 1 ounce of water to completely evaporate.
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<em>Show that it took longer to evaporate when the air </em>
<em>blowing over it was already loaded with vapor.</em>
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Answer: The weight of the air displaced by the balloon is less than the volume of the balloon.
Explanation:
A hot air balloon is a cloth wrap that contains several thousand cubic meters of air inside (a large volume of air). The burner heats the liquid propane to a gaseous state to generate a huge flame, which can reach more than 3 meters, thus heating the air mass inside the balloon. In this way,<u> its density is modified with respect to the air that surrounds it</u>, because the hot air is lighter than the outside air (less dense), causing the balloon to rise and float.
Now, if we know that the density of a body
is directly proportional to its mass
and inversely proportional to its volume
:

We can deduce that <u>by increasing the volume of the body, its density will decrease.</u>
This is proof of <em><u>Archimedes' Principle</u></em>:
<em>A body totally or partially immersed in a fluid at rest, experiences a vertical upward thrust equal to the mass weight of the body volume that is displaced.</em>
In this case the fluid is the air outside. So, the warm air inside the balloon, being less dense, will weigh less than the outside air and therefore will receive an upward pushing force or thrust that will make the balloon ascend.