There is more to surface emissivity than just colour and shininess. When using a good quality infrared thermal camera, there is usually an option to correct the temperature scale for the surface emissivity, from 0 to 1.
Yearly Archives: 2024
Laptop cooling systems? Not a big fan!
My new laptop CPU fan arrived today, and so I thought it’d be fun to ask ChatGPT to write an interesting blog post about laptop fans. The post in full is below.
My first school report, 1989
His poor coordination leads him to dislike many activities in PE.
The five best things about being a physics teacher
Why do I look forward to Monday mornings?
The problem with observation
The act of making a measurement changes the measurement being made.
Issues with Casio calculators
Why do I dislike Casio calculators? Watch this video for a few of the reasons!
Poll: Weblog post frequency
Do you think the frequency of weblog posts is appropriate? Have your say!
Laptop fan woes
I had to buy a new CPU fan for my laptop, because it stopped working.
Every action has… no, I cannot finish that
Newton’s Third Law. Need I say more? Well, in this weblog post, I say a lot more.
How many stars in the solar system?
How many stars in the solar system? In this post I explain why mistakes are necessary for learning
Physics with Keith 