RE: can of worms

["Inman, Don F" <don.f.inman@lmco.com>]

        >-----Original Message--From: Dave (as "Colette H. Adams") Date: 30
March
        >1998 09:16
        >
        >While there's a lot I don't understand about thermoregulation, for
what it's
        >worth, I generally agreed with what you said.  However, I feel . .
.
        >
        >> . . . the air temperature must be higher than the animal's body
        >temperature for heat to flow into it. <
        >
        >may be misleading in the case where an animal is sunbathing in cold
air
        >(consider alpine marmots).

        Consider also the car in the parking lot that heats up to 120 F. on
an 90 F.
        day  (for y'all who are Yankees, substitute 90 and 60; 30 and 20 for
the
        Centigrade world).  Heat flow depends on much more than ambient
temperature,
        or even termperature differential.

  --Toby White

comment here...

My forte is not heat transfer and thermodynamics but I don't think that
analogy works here. I think the car thing has more to do with the
transparent material (glass) and green house things. Not skin, scales, and
fur. 

Donald F. Inman, Jr.  
Engineer        
Control Law Design and Analysis 
Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems         
817-763-1550
don.f.inman@lmco.com