Sentences with phrase «temperature gradient forms»

Conversely, run an external current through the device, and a temperature gradient forms; i.e., one side becomes hotter than the other.

But in traditional cooking, the high temperature of the pan, oven or grill pushes heat into the exterior of the food so quickly that a large temperature gradient forms between the surface and the core.

That is not to say that I reject the evidence that changes in meridonial flux and temperature gradients form part of the explanation for the quasi-61-year oscillation observable in the SAT series.

The direction of convection (which includes diffusion and advection) when there has been previously a state of thermodynamic equilibrium (with its associated temperature gradient formed by gravity) is always in all accessible directions away from any source of new thermal energy which has disturbed the previous state of thermodynamic equilibrium.

Not exact matches

From the opening on the sea floor to a few feet away from the vent, a temperature gradient is formed along which different organisms might live, depending on their temperature preference.

Mid-latitude storms tend to form where there are sharp temperature gradients, where conditions for instabilities are favourable.

The Indian Ocean south of the equator is comparatively cooler and so temperature and pressure gradients are formed from south to north.

The temperature gradient steepens depending on the surface temperature being reduced, or may temporarily form an inversion — say if highly absorbent rock is heated by the Sun during the day.

Correct physics tells us that gravity forms a temperature gradient in the troposphere of a planet and that is the real reason why the surface temperature is hotter than the middle of the troposphere.

Regardless, I agree that «Correct physics tells us that gravity forms a temperature gradient in the troposphere of a planet and that is the real reason why the surface temperature is hotter than the middle of the troposphere.

There is a heat flow from the surface to the upper atmosphere, largely in the form of convection currents, driven by the temperature gradient, to replace the lost heat and maintain equilibrium.

This is how you can have a perpetual temperature gradient yet not be able to extract any work from it for a perpetual motion machine — a temperature gradient can be nullified by an equal but opposite gradient of energy in a different form.

Gravity forms a density gradient in accord with the Second Law of Thermodynamics, and likewise it forms a temperature gradient as the process described in statements of that law indicate will happen, each being the same state of thermodynamic equilibrium.

At night, convection brings as much energy to the surface of the ocean as needed to prevent an unstable temperature gradient from forming, so evaporation doesn't cool the skin layer of the ocean (without cooling the bulk).

The temperature gets lower with height because of purely mechanical property of convectively - stirred turbulent atmosphere in the field of gravity, when it HAS to form the vertical temperature gradient called «lapse rate».