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Tonyuguccioni
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The information I am given is : a door has two steel layers both are .47 mm thick, the door itself is 725 mm by 1800mm. The question asks, how thick of a layer of wood (oak) would have to be put in the door to limit the heat loss to 740kJ per hour? Temp inside is 18C and outside is -20C
All work is done with only three significant digits.
I have been working with the equation ;
H=area(temp1-temp2)/((thickness1/k1)+(thickness2/k2))
Where; k is the thermal conductivity of the material
X is the unknown
I have run threw the equation several times but every time I either can't isolate the variable or end up with a wrong answer.
0.205kJ/sec= ((1.30m^2)(38C))/((9.40*10^-5m/43W/mC)+(Xm/0.17W/mC))
Is this the right equation and/or have I made a simple error with conversions ?
Please don't post full answer I want to find it but tips or suggestions would be awesome !
All work is done with only three significant digits.
I have been working with the equation ;
H=area(temp1-temp2)/((thickness1/k1)+(thickness2/k2))
Where; k is the thermal conductivity of the material
X is the unknown
I have run threw the equation several times but every time I either can't isolate the variable or end up with a wrong answer.
0.205kJ/sec= ((1.30m^2)(38C))/((9.40*10^-5m/43W/mC)+(Xm/0.17W/mC))
Is this the right equation and/or have I made a simple error with conversions ?
Please don't post full answer I want to find it but tips or suggestions would be awesome !