Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer
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ISBN: 9780470501979
Author: Frank P. Incropera, David P. DeWitt, Theodore L. Bergman, Adrienne S. Lavine
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
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Chapter 9, Problem 9.15P
The plate described in Problem 9.14 has been used in an experiment to determine the free convection heat transfer coefficient. At an instant of time when the plate temperature was 127°C, the time rate of change of this temperature was observed to be
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