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Thermodynamics Heat Conduction-1
Thermodynamics Heat Conduction-1
INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING
CENTRAL CAMPUS, PULCHOWK
A Lab report on
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T = difference of T1 and T2
Temperature Scale
Power button
Wattmeter reading
Radial module
OBSERVATION
DISCUSSION
In the above experiment, we have done the experiment on thermal conduction to investigate Fourier’s law
of linear conduction. For this, we have calculated the value of thermal conductivity for the given
specimen, brass at different heater power. The value comes to be 136.4 W/(mK). This is 25% above the
actual value for thermal conductivity of brass. Due to some errors, this value can be considered and
Fourier’s law is valid. This error occurred due to mis-adjustment of the temperature probes on the linear
conducting specimen of brass. Similarly, it can also be the instrumental error. On increasing the heater
power, the thermal conductivity increases slightly.
In the same way, we have plotted a graph between the temperatures of the probes in y-axis and the
distance between the temperatures probes in x-axis for different values of the heater power. We got two
curves as shown in the figure above. Both the curves obtained have negative slopes.
CONCLUSION
From the given experiment, we can conclude that thermal conduction is a mode of heat transfer in which
energy transfer takes place from high temperature region to low temperature region when a temperature
gradient exists in a body. We have also investigated the Fourier’s law of linear conduction. Similarly, we
have studied the nature of the graph obtained by plotting the temperature of probes versus the distance
between the temperature probes. For the betterment of our result, we should take some precautions during
the experiment.