Your firm has designed a new 2m double-paned window which consists of two 5 mm thick plates of glass (k = 0.75 W/mK) separated by a 14 mm thick layer of xenon gas with an unknown thermal conductivity, which you intend to determine through an experiment. You use a heater that provides 100 W of heat to maintain one side of the window at 80 °C while the other 2 side is exposed to the air in the room with T = 20 °C (h = 15 W/m K). ∞
(a) Determine the thermal conductivity of the xenon layer
(b) Determine the temperature of the surface of the glass exposed to the room air in your experiment
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