Bruce Griffiths wrote: > Mark Sims wrote: >> Remember that heat flow is proportional to the FOURTH power of the >> temperature difference. Insulation is generally a linear function. The >> combination makes thermal stabilization over even small ambient >> temperature ranges rather problematic. >> >> >> > > Nonsense. > The radiative transfer between 2 bodies at different temperatures is > proportional to the difference between the 4th powers of their absolute > temperatures.
And this quantity is approximately equal to the THIRD power of the temperature difference for small temperature differences. (A simple calculus problem!) Rick Karlquist N6RK _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
