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Why is the thermal conductivity of superinsulation orders of magnitude lower than the thermal conductivity of ordinary insulation?
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The outer surface of a spacecraft in space has an emissivity of 0.8 and a solar absorptivity of 0.3. If solar radiation is incident on the spacecraft at a rate of 950 W/m2, determine the surface tempe...
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Consider a person whose exposed surface area is 1.7 m2, emissivity is 0.5, and surface temperature is 32°C. Determine the rate of heat loss from that person by radiation in a large room having walls a...
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Consider a sealed 20-cm-high electronic box whose base dimensions are 40 cm × 40 cm placed in a vacuum chamber. The emissivity of the outer surface of the box is 0.95. If the electronic c...
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Two surfaces, one highly polished and the other heavily oxidized, are found to be emitting the same amount of energy per unit area. The highly polished surface has an emissivity of 0.1 at 1070°C, whil...
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A spherical interplanetary probe with a diameter of 2 m is sent out into the solar system. The probe surface is made of material having an emissivity of 0.9 and an absorptivity of 0.1. Signals from th...
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An electronic package in the shape of a sphere with an outer diameter of 100 mm is placed in a large laboratory room. The surface emissivity of the package can assume three different values (0.2, 0.25...
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Can all three modes of heat transfer occur simultaneously (in parallel) in a medium?
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Can a medium involve (a) conduction and convection, (b) conduction and radiation, or (c) convection and radiation simultaneously? Give examples for the “yes” answers.
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How is the combined pump–motor efficiency of a pump and motor system defined? Can the combined pump–motor efficiency be greater than either the pump or the motor efficiency?
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