Practice - Radiation Heat Transfer Between Surfaces
Practice Questions
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Define emissivity.
💡 Hint: Think about how we compare materials to an ideal emitter.
Name the three modes of heat transfer.
💡 Hint: One of them occurs without a medium.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What does emissivity quantify?
💡 Hint: Think about how surfaces are compared to an ideal model.
True or False: Blackbodies have an emissivity of 0.
💡 Hint: Recall the definition of a blackbody.
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Challenge Problems
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A black surface has a temperature of 600 K and a grey surface has a temperature of 300 K with emissivities of 0.9 and 0.8 respectively. Calculate the heat transfer between them.
💡 Hint: Make sure to factor in the emissivities and absolute temperatures correctly.
Describe how adding a radiation shield affects the radiation heat transfer between two surfaces.
💡 Hint: Think about how the shield interacts with radiation paths.
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