Name _____________________________________ Section ____________CM ____________ Lab 7 Prelab The bead of a copper-constantan thermocouple has the following properties:

= 490

lb ft 3

C P = 0 . 11

BTU lb F

Volume = 0 .0025 ft . Surface Area

The thermocouple bead is initially at room temperature of 72F when it is placed in fluid of temperature 170F. The response of the thermocouple is measured and shown in Fig. 1. (For clarity, the individual points of the experimental data are not shown.)
190 170 Temperature (F) 150 130 110 90 70 0 0.05 0.1 0.15 0.2 Time (hr) 0.25 0.3 0.35 0.4

Figure 1: Experimental step response of a thermocouple

Defining the thermocouple bead as the system, determine the overall convective heat transfer coefficient h between the bead and the surrounding fluid.

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