Thermal Diffusivity of a Sphere
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This Demonstration describes a method for determining the thermal diffusivity of a sphere. The sphere is suddenly immersed in a cooling fluid and the temperature of the fluid is observed as a function of time.
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Contributed by: Clay Gruesbeck (September 2016)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA
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[1] R. B. Bird, W. E. Stewart and E. N. Lightfoot, Transport Phenomena, rev. 2nd ed., New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2007.
[2] H. S. Carlslaw and J. C. Jaeger, Conduction of Heat in Solids, 2nd ed., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1959.
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