If you take the error to be the difference between the upper and lower interval of the fluctuations, you still get, visibly, COP of more than 8. I guess this is a strong evidence that if there is an error, it is one of carelessness setting up the experiment. That's way too above the background.
2012/2/5 Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> > Mitchell Swartz published this: > > >> http://world.std.com/~mica/krivit02052012.html >> > > In the first figure, the green line appears to be the response to input > power being stepped up. I guess this green line shows the temperature in a > control cell. Anyway, that is a splendid stable response, well in > proportion to the input power. This allays some of my concerns about the > calorimetry. However, I would like to know more about it. > > I do not not mean I suspect Swartz made a mistake. I wouldn't know. I just > meant there are many way to make a mistake doing low power calorimetry, so > you have to be careful. > > - Jed > > -- Daniel Rocha - RJ [email protected]
