Answer by Mauricio for Unintuitive observation by Rumford
The heat flow transfer between three objects can get very complicated and non-intuitive, especially when geometries are involved.I would consider here simplified version, where I replace the two...
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Answer by Rich for Unintuitive observation by Rumford
The answer lies in radiation absorption and reflection. All bodies absorb and emit radiation. A perfect black body absorbs all radiation falling on it and emits radiation dependent on its temperature....
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By blackening the surface of the cylinders, their emissivity $\varepsilon$ is increased. When B is blackened, the thermal radiation it emits will increase in accordance with the Stefan-Boltzmann law $P...
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Unintuitive observation by Rumford
I was reading a paper on the work of Count Rumford in developing the modern view of heat as a form of energy and not some kind of fluid. In that I encountered this experiment.Say you had two cylinders...
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