The boiling temperature of water decreases as the pressure decreases or as the altitude increases. For example, water boils at 212 F at or near the sea level. In Oxford, MS, where the elevation is about 505 ft., water boils at 211 F. In Golden, CO, where the elevation is about 5600 ft, water boils at 201 F.
We have contributed a program to Mathematica that obtains the boiling temperature of water for varying elevation by just moving a knob called the “Slider”. Below is the web page for our demo in Mathematica:
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/BoilingPointOfWaterAsAFunctionOfAltitude/
Please note “Slider” and dynamic calculations are extremely powerful tools. Mathematica and dynamic analysis certainly could be imbedded in our industry and help us obtain various results both very efficiently and very quickly. Instead of obtaining one result for inputting one value, we can obtain continuous answers by just moving the knob “Slider”.