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- From: logajan@ns.network.com (John Logajan)
- Subject: Re: Status #7 Cell 4A3
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 00:33:46 GMT
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- DROEGE@fnald.fnal.gov writes:
- >A curious observation is that we are more sensitive to the outside air
- >temperature than to the room temperature.
-
- The only explanation I can think of is that the changing infared flux from
- the house walls to the calorimeter walls doesn't have as good a coupling to
- the room air as to the solid walls of the apparatus. This makes sense. We
- know from normal sun/earth/atmosphere interaction that 80% of atmospheric
- heat is first captured by the ground and then transfered to the atmosphere by
- the physical contact of the wind against the earth.
-
- The problem is that thermometers, being solid objects, should mimic the
- coupling, and hence indicate the actual temperature on the outside calorimeter
- shell. Hmm.
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