[Amps] Anodizing aluminum, painting etc.

[m.ford]

>From my freshman year Applied Physics textbook:

"Conduction is the process in which heat energy is transferred by adjacent molecular
collisions throughout a material medium. The medium itself does not move."

"Convection is the process in which heat is transferred by the actual mass motion
of a fluid."

"Radiation is the process in which heat is transferred by electromagnetic waves."

and that is how it will all happen.

Mike  k1ern

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harold Mandel" <ka1xo at juno.com>
To: <amps at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 1:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Amps] Anodizing aluminum, painting etc.


> Does the word "sink" in "heat sink" refer to the
> ability of a device that is cooler than something else, and its
> ability to use thermodynamics to use that temperature difference
> to draw heat from the hot thing into the cold thing?
> 
> Then I suppose that mass matters. 
> 
> Sooner or later thermal equilibrium might be reached and then 
> the thing that was cooler and drawing the heat from the hot
> thing needs to be cooled off and maybe that's where the radiator
> part comes into play.
> 
> Then surface area in the way of wind means that the wind will be
> able to absorb heat from the hotter thing, faster, but the wind needs to be 
> sent somewhere else or it too will be just as hot as the radiator.
> 
> The very end result will be the heat death of the universe, where
> everything will be the same temperature as everything else.
> 
> Then we can all start over.
> 
>  Hal Mandel 
> W4HBM
> 
>