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since aerogel helps to insulate heat, it would be helpful during the winter? (B?)

im thinking B or C? since the air is hotter in the lower pane..

can definitely rule out D

Homework Statement To heat your house when it is especially cold outside, your house is equipped with a condensing furnace. Like any combustion furnace, the condensing furnace burns fuel to produce thermal energy and then uses a heat exchanger to convey heat from the burned gases to the air in...

Homework Statement Your house will have several skylights. To minimize heat flow, each skylight will have two transparent panes separated by an intermediate layer. Since visibility through the skylight isn't important, the gap between the panes will be filled with aerogel: a porous, ultralight...

yes, I was able to solve it!

Homework Statement The windows in your house will all have two panes of glass, separated by a thin layer of gas. It would be much simpler to just glue the two panes of glass together. Why does separating them with a layer of gas improve their thermal insulation? a. Although the gas has the...