Phil Ethier comments:
> Oddly enough, shiny metal seems to heat in the sun more than white-painted
> metal. I walked up to a white van parked in the sun. The chrome bumper
was
> hot and the white body was cool. Hmmm.
Hmmm indeed!. . . I clad an outbuilding on my shop lot with shiny
galvanized material and noted that in direct summer sun, the shiny metal
was so hot I could not bear to hold my hand on it while the white painted
metal next to it was very comfortable to touch . . . I expected the opposite
. . .
Any physics major want to "splain" this to we with inquiring minds?
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> Phil Ethier Saint Paul Minnesota USA
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