How to measure the volume of your bathtub: - Fill with cold water - Heat electrically with known constant power - Measure rate of temperature change
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Replying to @oe1cxw
ok so, try the following experiment. put boiling water into an *open* thermos flask. heat loss through conduction is minimal, so almost everything you see is heat loss due to water's immense heat of evaporation, and evaporate it does
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Replying to @whitequark @oe1cxw
a better idea is to time filling a container of a known volume with cold water, and then, without turning the knob, time filling the entire bathtub
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Replying to @whitequark
Of course. But that's boring. So I only do that to have something to compare against.
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