Questions tagged [cooling]
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What is the Festina Lente Regime?
I am studying BEC formation without evaporative cooling, so realized only thrpugh optical means.
One of the problems to face is "photon reabsorption": an atom absorbs a photon of the laser ...
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Air conditioner on rainy day [closed]
I got a new LG 1.5 ton AC(Air conditioner) . It's summer time here and the temperature reaches approx 40 degree Celsius at peak time. And it's working quite satisfactorily. But in the last two weeks ...
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Can a fan in a room cool down objects?
Does a fan cool objects? I have a ceiling fan in my office which really helps to keeps the room cool. Does it also cool down vitamins in a plastic bottle with a screw on top? My office can get very ...
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Initial and final pressures for the Joule-Kelvin expansion?
The Joule-Kelvin (or Joule-Thomson) expansion is an isenthalpic expansion in which the reduction of a gas' pressure from $ P_{i} $ to $ P_{f} $ results in a change in Temperature. It results in ...
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Temperature drop along silicone tube
I would like to ask your help to calculate the temperature drop of a fluid (at a specific conductivity) that flows in a silicone tube at different rates. This is a real case and I expect to perform ...
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Open window in hot room, how fast will temperature equalize? [closed]
I am currently sitting in a warm room. I just opened a window to the outdoors, where it is cooler.
Middle school science says the warm air should move toward the cool air, which should (in theory) ...
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Random walks and the Doppler limit in laser cooling
I have a question about some conflicting definitions I have encountered regarding the diffusion coefficient in random walks of laser cooled atoms. I was wondering if someone here may be able to clear ...
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Will a consumer freezer survive air travel with a pressurization/depressurization cycle?
Is it possible to ship a consumer freezer by air cargo (such as this one: https://www.danby.com/products/freezers/dcf072a2wp/ )? Or will the refrigerant gas expand too much and break the freezer? We ...
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Cooling something by applying a decreasing temperature
I've recently come across Fourier's Heat Equation: $k \cdot \nabla^2 \; T = \rho c \cdot \dot{T}$ and the solution to Newton's Law of Cooling: $T(t)=\left(T_\text{initial} - T_\text{cool}\right) \cdot ...
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Is it possible that an instant coffee 3 in 1 (or any other type of coffee) is cooling faster than tea?
I have observed a strange phenomenon. I my mouth is very sensitive to very hot liquids (like, freshly made tea, or just freshly boiled water), so when I make my tea, I usually wait around 20 minutes ...
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Artificial sun Sculpture [closed]
I am designing a dynamic sculpture of the solar system, about 6,500 feet long from the sun to Neptune. At this scale the sun will be 24 inches in diameter, Earth a quarter of an inch. Every hour the ...
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Coldest temperatures achievable in DIY enthusiast/hobbyist setting
Assume I, as a physics DIY enthusiast, would like to cool a little piece of material down to coldest possible temperatures, for my own entertainment or my private curiosity/research ambitions. We all ...
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Using an electric/magnetic field to cool particles
I was just thinking that temperature and the motion of atoms are connected. Hence, I was wondering why we can’t just use a magnetic or electric field to hold atoms more or less in place, lowering ...
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Cooling of compressed air
If we compress air from $p_1=1bar$ with starting temperature $T_1=20°C$, the pipes behind the compressor become usually "very" hot. However, if we start at $T_1=20°C$ and $p_1=10bar$ and we decompress ...
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Intuitive explanation why rate of energy transfer depends on difference in energy between two materials?
The temperature of an object will decrease faster if the difference in temperature between the object and it's surroundings is greater.
What is the intuitive explanation for this?
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Cooling down room with just a water
As I know, heat capacity of normal air is ~1kJ/kg and heat capacity of water is ~4.1kJ/kg.
I am trying to cool down room (around 6m³) from 30C to 20C just by cold water.
Let's say I have water with ...
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Passive dissipator block between two peltier cells seemingly raising overall temperature differential
I am experimenting with stacked Peltier cells trying to build a simple diffusion cloud chamber.
I noticed that when simply stacking two peltier cells the upper side reaches a temperature (around -15 C)...
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How to calculate CFM of cooling fan using anemometer and duct?
I have quite a few 4010 (40x40x10mm) fans and would like to measure the air flow of each one. I have designed this 3D Printed duct that fits on a handheld anemometer, and the fan mounts on the other ...
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Choosing Molecular Beam Carrier Gas
What is the specific criteria for picking the carrier gas for a molecular beam? If you are studying a large neutral species, does it make sense to choose argon over helium for better collisional ...
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Calculate the rate of cooling of huge amount of water to room temperature
Is it possible to calculate the rate of cooling of huge amount of water to room temperature given the following parameters:
The surface of water in contact with air
the surface of water in contact ...
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What was the original statement of Newton's Law of Cooling?
In our courses of differential equations we usually find Newton's Law of Cooling stated and written as
The rate of change of temperature of a body is directly proportional to the difference in ...
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Why don't people just put a water sprinkler on their roof for cooling? [closed]
Some air conditioners work with evaporative processes. So I'm not sure why people wouldn't just use a sprinkler that turns on for a minute every hour or half hour or whatever in order to wet the roof. ...
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What is the obtainable work from cooling water? [closed]
In Callen's thermostatistics textbook, problem 4.5-14 says
If the temperature of the atmosphere is 5°C on a winter day and if 1 kg of water at 90°C is available, how much work can be obtained as ...
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Cooling of objects Thermodynamically unfavourable?
As I've learnt, systems in the Universe always tend to increase their entropy since it provides a larger number of availiable microstates for energy to be distributed and is hence statisticaly ...
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Can radiators cool down using only back body radiation?
If you could produce a very thin tube, say less than the thickness of a human hair, designed to carry a hot liquid inside, the diameter is small so that the liquid would have a high surface area to ...
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Laser beam versus activly cooled armor. Who will win?
I'm interested in space warfare from a hard sci-fi perspective. Usually I ask these kind of questions on Worldbuilding SE, but I felt that this one fits this SE better.
Recently read this post on the ...
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Modeling the cooling rate of a nuclear fireball in space
I am interested in modelling the cooling and luminosity curves for a nuclear detonation in space (after the release of the prompt radiation). How do I get the timing of the second hump right?
I tried ...
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Is this cheap “air conditioner” able to cool a room?
My parents bought this "air conditioner", but I am very skeptical that this can cool a room, or even cool anything.
I doubt that it even has a cooling element, I suspect that it is just a fan + ...
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Cooling just one mode?
In the context of Brillouin scattering and Stokes/anti-Stokes scattering in a silicon waveguide, a speaker mentioned optical cooling, but apparently only cooling a single "mode" was cooled. I had ...
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calculate CFM of a ceiling fan
I'm trying to calculate, or even understand what data do i need to calculate the CFM of a ceiling fan. in many countries this is a given data in the product details but not where I'm from. I have the ...
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How do we cool gases to the $mK$ range?
When we set new records for coldest temperature in the universe, we usually do it with gases (see: https://physicsworld.com/a/millikelvin-cooling-of-large-molecules-is-no-myth/)
How do we pull this ...
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How does an ultrasonic humidifier / atomizer affect temperature?
Evaporative cooling is a technique used to cool air by using the evaporation of a liquid.
My google research on evaporative cooling shows a ubiquitous concept of forcing air through a pad/membrane/...
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Does tea made with boiling water cool faster than tea made with boiled (but still hot) water?
I always make tea with boiling water - not water that is almost boiling, not water that has boiled and stopped boiling a few seconds earlier - in my opinion, for the best tea flavour the water must be ...
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Cooling effect caused by evaporation
Evaporation is said to cause cooling effect because it absorbs energy from surroundings to change its phase from that of a liquid to gas. I am in doubt as to why would the surroundings be ready to ...
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How does evaporator coil absorb heat when a cool liquid is passed inside it?
My question is how does evaporator coil inside a refrigerator cools the inside atmosphere by absorbing heat? I am fully confused, how the heat absorption happens? This technically sounds confusing.
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What are some factors affecting the rate of cooling of a liquid?
What are possible factors affecting the rate of cooling of a liquid, aside from the volume of water, surface area of the water, or type of container.
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Cause of change of tea volume during cooling
At work I often drink tea, and i usually fill my cup to the brim with boiling water. When I let it cool though, until it's ready to drink, the liquids surface has sunken by about a fingers width.
To ...
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New black Van in South Florida - To insulate or Not? Radiative Cooling effect?
I'm not homeless, I'm just frugal and trying to drive a lot less.. maybe I'm adventurous. :) Anyways, I've been working , eating and sleeping out of my new Black van. The van is brutally hot during ...
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Can cooling airflow be too fast for efficiency?
If using pressurized air flow to cool a hot metal tube (by blowing the air through the tube, not blowing it over the exterior), would high volume fast airflow cool better than low volume slower air ...
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Momentum Change from Spontaneous Emission
In page 188 of Christopher Foot's book on atomic physics, he talks about the Doppler cooling limit, and how it comes from a random walk caused by spontaneous emission. He claims that each spontaneous ...
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How to develop a model for cooling rate of steel tube in air?
I am trying to develop an equation to determine the cooling rate of a steel tube in air. I'm using Fourier's Law, Stefan-Boltzman Law, Newton's Law as well as the specific heat capacity equation. The ...
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which give higher cooling rate , strong circulated water or thick copper plate? [duplicate]
imagine if I have hot metal piece I want to cool it as fast as possiple, should I put it in strong circulated water bath or just stick it between 2 thick copper plates ?
the calculated heat ...
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which is more effective chilling for metal casting, thick copper die or water-cooled thin copper mold? [closed]
It is will known that increasing cooling of a metal casting will lead to finer micro-structure which mean higher mechanical properties.
If I have 2 molds one is thick copper die ,& second is just ...
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Effectiveness of cooling oneself by a hand fan
I recently had a discussion with a friend of mine regarding the effectiveness of handheld fans. My friend argued that you would always get warmer. I’m sure that this needn’t be the case, as the system ...
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Cool a room with a fan, what sens orientation? [duplicate]
It is really hot these days, and at night, I try to cool my room before going to sleep but I'm wondering in which sens I should orient my Fan
Answer A : Push the hotter air with my fan outside.
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Name of this type of cooling system?
If you pump around air in a cyclic tube at a high speed, and one part of the tube is narrower than the rest of the tube, the air flow will have to increase in speed when it enters the narrow part in ...
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Why does evaporation cause cooling?
I am aware that the evaporation process causes cooling in the remaining liquid, but why?
If anyone can give me the maths and or equations to prove / show this I would be most appreciative.
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Newton's law of cooling for negative Kelvin temperatures
Newton's law of cooling says that $$\frac{dT}{dt}=-k(T-T_a)$$where $T$ is the temperature of the substance, $T_a$ is the ambient temperature, and $t$ is the time. Usually, we say that if $T>T_a$, ...
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Melted chocolate forming fractal branches
Tree-like structure in chocolate
Today I let some melted chocolate solidify in a smooth bowl in my fridge. When it had settled, I gently heated the outside of the bowl with warm water to unstick the ...
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Radiation cooling in space [closed]
Would the droplet cooling system from Mass Effect be actually possible in our universe? I'm interested in expanding the space industry and promote manufacturing in space. One of the biggest problems ...
