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Hot Air Rises and Heat Sinks: Everything You Know about Cooling Electronics Is WrongAvailable to Purchase
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0791800741
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236
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ASME Press
Publication date:
1998
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Published:1998
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Kordyban, T. "Even a Watched Pot Boils Eventually." Hot Air Rises and Heat Sinks: Everything You Know about Cooling Electronics Is Wrong. Ed. Kordyban, T. ASME Press, 1998.
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Roxanne the Intern hasn't learned her cooling folklore. Instead of following the traditional lab procedure of waiting an hour, then recording a temperature, she actually waits until the temperature reaches a maximum, and all heck breaks loose. Lesson: Thermal time constants and transient convection.
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