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7 Sep 2024 17:16:32 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Oven physics  
From: John VanSickle
Date: 2 Jun 2008 07:37:14
Message: <4843db6a$1@news.povray.org>
Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Small question: The rate at which an object looses heat. Clearly this is 
> proportional to how much hotter it is than its surroundings. But is this 
> relationship linear?

No.  The radiation of energy due to heat is proportional to the fourth 
power of the absolute temperature.

Regards,
John


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