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A Note on the Surface Temperature of Sliding Metals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

F. P. Bowden
Affiliation:
Gonville and Caius College
K. E. W. Ridler
Affiliation:
Gonville and Caius CollegeLaboratory of Physical Chemistry, Cambridge

Extract

If a simple calculation is made of the amount of heat liberated when one body is slid over another, and of the possible rate of escape of the heat by conduction and emission, it shows that the temperature of the surface may reach a high value.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1935

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