<div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.1875px">"Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night;</span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.1875px">God said "Let Staube be" and all was light."</span><br>
<div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.1875px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.1875px">(with apologies to Alexander Pope, regarding his epitaph of Isaac Newton)</span></div>
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</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 9:01 AM, John Straube <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jfstraube@gmail.com" target="_blank">jfstraube@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Yes, a completely reliable statement. "Heat flows through a material at a rate based only on the temperature difference and the thermal resistance of the intervening layer"<br>
(unless we are talking about dynamic conditions like an above grade wall or roof exposed to significant temperature changes on a hourly basis where mass/heat capacity begins to have an effect, albeit usually a small one).<br>
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On 2013-08-22, at 8:41 AM, Alan Abrams <<a href="mailto:alan@abramsdesignbuild.com">alan@abramsdesignbuild.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> so John, are you saying that when measuring heat flow from one mass to another, it does not matter what the density of the cooler mass is, and that the only thing of significance is the difference in temperature?<br>
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> -Grasshopper<br>
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</div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">John Straube<br>
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