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Publication Date: 2017-Jul
Pages: 7
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Investigating Comfort Temperatures and Heat Transfer in Sleeping Bags
Hill, Trevor; Hill, Lara
Physics Education, v52 n4 Article 045003 Jul 2017
After many years of confusion, thermal performance of sleeping bags has now been quantified and unified using expensive test techniques. Based on Newton's law of cooling, we present a simple inexpensive test and model to check manufacturers' claims on the temperature performance of a range of modern sleeping bags.
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Heat, Thermodynamics, Physics, Science Experiments, Males, Females, Measurement
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