Recent content by donbock

If I knew how much energy was conducted away from the surface to heat the bulk of the object, then I could use the specific heat capacity to compute the temperature change -- but I don't see how to predict how much energy is conducted. Even if I knew how to do this, I'm not sure it is very...

Prior to exposure to the sun, the object can be expected to be at the ambient temperature. When I said "how much will the temperature increase", I really meant "what is the object's equilibrium temperature" and, oh by the way, how much hotter is that than the ambient. ( I revised the original...

Homework Statement (This is not a homework problem; it comes from a real-world problem I'm trying to solve.) Sunlight is falling on an absorptive object. What will be equilibrium temperature of the object given the solar irradiance (I) and the ambient temperature? I = solar irradiance =...