Blundell Thermal Physics · Problem 10.3

The thermal diffusion equation

Physics — Statistical Mechanics · spherical-chicken-cooking-time

Problem

Show that for the problem of a spherical chicken being cooked in an oven considered in Example 10.4, the temperature TT gets 90\% of the way from T0T_0 to T1T_1 after a time ∼a2ln⁡20/π2D\sim a^2 \ln 20 / \pi^2 D.

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