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PHYS143 Assignment 9 2013

The document describes three physics problems related to heat transfer: 1) A metal rod transfers heat between boiling water and an ice/water mixture, melting 20g of ice in 15 minutes. The task is to calculate the heat transfer rate and thermal conductivity of the rod material. 2) Heat flows into a polystyrene esky filled with ice and drinks outside at 42°C. The tasks are to calculate the heat flow rate and amount of ice that will melt over 5 hours. 3) A "blackbody heat shield" uses parallel metal sheets to reduce radiant heat loss from an object at 1300K. The task is to explain how it works and determine the number of sheets needed to reduce

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PHYS143 Assignment 9 2013

The document describes three physics problems related to heat transfer: 1) A metal rod transfers heat between boiling water and an ice/water mixture, melting 20g of ice in 15 minutes. The task is to calculate the heat transfer rate and thermal conductivity of the rod material. 2) Heat flows into a polystyrene esky filled with ice and drinks outside at 42°C. The tasks are to calculate the heat flow rate and amount of ice that will melt over 5 hours. 3) A "blackbody heat shield" uses parallel metal sheets to reduce radiant heat loss from an object at 1300K. The task is to explain how it works and determine the number of sheets needed to reduce

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PHYS143 Assignment 9 2013

Due 3 pm Friday 10 May (place in the slot opposite the 100-level physics laboratory) Legible hand-written answers are greatly preferred! 1) (2012 exam, Q B4 b)) One end of a metal rod, which is insulated from the environment, has a length of 0.30 m and cross-sectional area 2.00 x 10-5 m2, sits in a vessel of water boiling at 100 C. The other end is immersed in a mixture of ice and water at 0 C. The heat conducted along the rod melts 20.00 g of ice in 15.00 minutes.
Metal rod, 0.3 m long

Boiling water

Ice + water

a) Find the heat transported per second along the rod. b) Calculate the thermal conductivity K of the material in the rod. (Latent heat of fusion for ice is Lf = 333 x 103 J kg-1.) 2) A polystyrene esky is used to keep cans of drink cold while at the beach. The esky has a total surface area (including the lid) of 0.9 m2 and the walls and lid have a thickness of 5.0 cm. In the morning it is filled with ice, water and cans of drink, all at 0 C. a) What is the rate of heat flow into the esky assuming that the outside is a constant 42 C? (The thermal conductivity of polystyrene is 0.01 W m-1 K-1.) b) How much ice will melt during your 5 hours at the beach? 3) [Warning, tougher problem (dont spend too long it if you are not making progress)!] A blackbody heat shield is used to reduce radiant heat loss in situations were standard low conductivity insulation (i.e. normal insulation that reduces losses through conduction) is not very useful. The shield is constructed using a set of parallel metal sheets, each with emissivity 1.0.
Unshielded radiant heat loss Reduced radiant heat loss

Object at 1300 K

Heat shields

Explain how/why this heat shield works and determine how many sheets of metal are required to reduce the heat loss to less than 20% of the unshielded value. (Hint: think about the radiation absorbed by each sheet and how this energy will be re-radiated.)

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