ABSTRACT
FIGURE 5.5: Hardware connections used to validate the one-dimensional heat equation.
The polynomials, which can be used to convert the voltage readings in microvolts to degrees Celsius and vice versa, are given in Tables 2.2 and 2.3. These formulas are taken from [9]. The thermocouple used in this experiment is of type T, which has a fast response time, and is one of the oldest and most popular thermocouples for determining temperatures within the range from about 370 ◦C down to the triple point of neon (-248.5939 ◦C). Its positive thermoelement, TP, is typically copper of high electrical conductivity and low oxygen content (99.95% pure copper with an oxygen content varying from 0.02 to 0.07% — depending on sulfur content — and with other impurities totaling about 0.01%).
