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Solar heating of a house is much more efficient if there is a way to store the thermal energy collected during the day to warm the house at night. Suppose one solar-heated home utilizes a concrete slab of area 12 m2 and 25 cm thick.

(a) If the density of concrete is 2400 kg/m3, what is the mass of the slab?

(b) The slab is exposed to sunlight and absorbs energy at a rate of 1.4 × 107 J/h for 10 h. If it begins the day at 22°C and has a specific heat of 750 J/(kg · K), what is its temperature at sunset?

(c) Model the concrete slab as being surrounded on both sides (contact area 24 m2) with a 2.0-m-thick layer of air in contact with a surface that is 5.0 °C cooler than the concrete. At sunset, what is the rate at which the concrete loses thermal energy by conduction through the air layer?

(d) Model the concrete slab as having a surface area of 24 m2 and surrounded by an environment 5.0 °C cooler than the concrete. If its emissivity is 0.94, what is the rate at which the concrete loses thermal energy by radiation at sunset?

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Physics

ISBN: 978-0321976444

5th edition

Authors: James S. Walker

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