Recent content by BabyHuey06

Your correct, looking closer at the spec sheet it turns out that the full dimension was cutoff and what was left looks like a 7, whether it is hollowed steel or not. I really do not know, I'd have to figure that one out. Thanks again for the great info. I actually borrowed one of my friends...

Thank you for all the information. And yes I am positive haha. The steel box is actually a 1960's refurbished caboose needed for a freight train that were putting back in service. The walls may be a tiny bit thinner as the as buit specs were pretty old and hard to read.

Oh woops, sorry I was messing around with some of the numbers and must of accidentally took a snap shot of the wrong one. Thanks for catching that, but going back with the corrected numbers I am getting about 1 x 10^5. Now you said that steel is like 1000 times more conductive, which means that...

If I have a large steel box that is 27ft x 8ft x 8ft and has 7 in thick walls with 4 non-insulated windows each 1ft by 1ft, where does heat escape from inside the box, is it the windows and the walls? So if the inside temperature needs to be 72 F and the outside air is 0 F how much heat would...

How so? Wouldn't the snow eventually accumulate to the point where it can no longer be pushed, if there was a max amount of power that can go into it. How do you know that the exit rate will eventually match the intake?

Update 1: The moving snow is not at a steady state in terms of mass flow. Snow gradually builds up in front of the plow, accumulating mass.

Oh haha that's what he was trying to say. Whoops, sorry about that. So it is not at steady state. Snow accumulates in front of the plow and does not go anywhere. What I think I need to do is figure out where the snow would most logically and theoretically leave the plow. That would give me the...

So the snow is just being pushed off to the side and onto the freshly fallen snow that isn't being plowed. There is a wall of snow next to plow which is why the snow accumulates inside the plow before leaving.

Homework Statement Let's say I am plowing snow in a straight line using a standard V-plow. The angle of the V between both blades is 130 degrees. The coefficient of kinetic friction between the blades and the snow is about .1. The speed of the plow is 5 mph or 2.2 meters per second. The...