I was thinking I could get a "low-end" for the hypothetical temperature using radiation because I'm pretty sure using convection would give a bigger result.
I was confused because the answer came out to be 15,000 K and 1/r^2 gave 1/16,000,000.
Why did you use 13 J/m^3 for heating the air by 10 K? I thought heating the air would require around 1005 J per kg per Kelvin. A Google search brought up a density of 1.225 kg/m^3 for the density of air (at...
What if the temperature increase happened in a second (or less)? Would that affect the absorption of radiation significantly?
Does this mean temperature increase falls slower than the square of the distance from the source?
I was debating on another forum how hot a heat source in a cartoon would have had to be to cause a temperature increase in the atmosphere. In a cartoon, I found a scene in which a "fireball" (not really fire) heats the air to create a warm front immediately, clashing with an ice beam that...
I had no idea there was a Sci-Fi and Fantasy sub-forum here. I was involved in a discussion about a fictional weapon heating the atmosphere to create a warm front and wanted to quantify how hot a heat source would have to be to heat the atmosphere 4,000 radii away by 10 K. I know this wouldn't...
I've been trying to wrap my head around the relationship between temperature increase of an object at a distance and temperature of a heat source. From what I've found, the temperature increase of an object from thermal radiation is affected by the inverse square law...