Measurement of the convective heat-transfer coefficient
Physics Education
2014-01-28 v1
Abstract
We propose an experiment for investigating how objects cool down toward the thermal equilibrium with its surrounding through convection. We describe the time dependence of the temperature difference of the cooling object and the environment with an exponential decay function. By measuring the thermal constant tau, we determine the convective heat-transfer coefficient, which is a characteristic constant of the convection system.
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@article{arxiv.1401.0270,
title = {Measurement of the convective heat-transfer coefficient},
author = {Rosaria Conti and Aurelio Agliolo Gallitto and Emilio Fiordilino},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.0270},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
8 pages, 2 embedded figures. Accepted for publication in The Physics Teacher