Recent content by Stephen Lanford

All a lot to think about and analyze here. Thanks for greatly expanding my miserably limited horizons!

I am not sure which of the values I plugged into the thermal conductivity formula are "assumptions"; the area, thickness, latent heat of fusion, time, and cold/hot temperature differential should all be fairly solid quantities.

Ha, I sure did send you the wrong one! Here is the correct experiment. Thanks again!

I certainly can provide a diagram of the experiment setup. You will find one on the first page of this physics experiment instructional sheet. Thanks so much for your help!

The document you shared does a great job in explaining how this whole experiment works, but I did not see anything about potential sources of error (except for a step at the end of the assignment that said to state and explain the sources of error---which I cannot do if I am not sure what they...

Would you mind specifying what you mean by "film coefficients." Also, would you mind explaining how exactly the radiation transfer would operate with this specific experimental set-up. I'm a little unsure. Would radiation be a bigger cause of error when using a low thermal conductivity barrier...

Hello, my name is Stephen Lanford and I am currently working on a Physics II lab. I am solving for the thermal conductivity of four materials (glass, plexiglass, pine, and sheetrock) using data from thermal conductivity experiments. The experiments consist of a steam chamber at 100 C, a block...