A Simple Experimental Procedure for the Approximate Determination of the Heat Capacity of Metals in a Natural Convection Environment under the Premises of a Lumped Model
Abstract:A method is presented of measuring the specific heat capacity, Cp, of pure metals and alloys in an undergraduate thermofluids laboratory using simple concepts of unsteady heat conduction in solids and natural convection in fluids taken from textbooks on heat transfer. A simple experiment was developed in which a small-diameter metallic sphere at ambient temperature (∼20° C) is suddenly immersed in a tank containing quiescent ice water at 0° C. The metallic sphere was suspended by the lead wire of a thermocoupl… Show more
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