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Chapter 12 Problem 12.125

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The neighborhood cat likes to sleep on the roof of ourshed in the backyard. The roofing surface is weath-ered galvanized sheet metal (??0.65, ?S?0.8).Consider a cool spring day when the ambient air tem- perature is 10C and the convection coefficient canbe estimated from an empirical correlation of theform , where Tis the differencebetween the surface and ambient temperatures.Assume the sky temperature is?40C.(a) Assuming the backside of the roof is well insu-lated, calculate the roof temperature when thesolar irradiation is 600 W/m2. Will the cat enjoysleeping under these conditions?(b) Consider the case when the backside of the roofis not insulated, but is exposed to ambient airwith the same convection coefficient relationand experiences radiation exchange with theground, also at the ambient air temperature. Cal-culate the roof temperature and comment onwhether the roof will be a comfortable place forthe cat to snooze.

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Title Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer 7 
Author Theodore L. Bergman; Adrienne S. Lavine; Frank P. Incropera; David P. DeWitt
ISBN 9780470501979

The neighborhood cat likes to sleep on the roof of ourshed

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