Recent content by GvZ

I was thinking I could get a "low-end" for the hypothetical temperature using radiation because I'm pretty sure using convection would give a bigger result.

I think I understand this now. Thanks for clearing this up.

I was confused because the answer came out to be 15,000 K and 1/r^2 gave 1/16,000,000. Why did you use 13 J/m^3 for heating the air by 10 K? I thought heating the air would require around 1005 J per kg per Kelvin. A Google search brought up a density of 1.225 kg/m^3 for the density of air (at...

What if the temperature increase happened in a second (or less)? Would that affect the absorption of radiation significantly? Does this mean temperature increase falls slower than the square of the distance from the source?

I was debating on another forum how hot a heat source in a cartoon would have had to be to cause a temperature increase in the atmosphere. In a cartoon, I found a scene in which a "fireball" (not really fire) heats the air to create a warm front immediately, clashing with an ice beam that...

I had no idea there was a Sci-Fi and Fantasy sub-forum here. I was involved in a discussion about a fictional weapon heating the atmosphere to create a warm front and wanted to quantify how hot a heat source would have to be to heat the atmosphere 4,000 radii away by 10 K. I know this wouldn't...

I've been trying to wrap my head around the relationship between temperature increase of an object at a distance and temperature of a heat source. From what I've found, the temperature increase of an object from thermal radiation is affected by the inverse square law...

I'm just here to have some confusing concepts cleared up. Not really anything special.