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1.6 Exercise 28

Avg difficulty 2.5

Compare the rate of heat conduction through a 13.0-cm-thick wall that has an area of 10.0m210.0 \text{m}^{2} and a thermal conductivity twice that of glass wool with the rate of heat conduction through a 0.750-cm-thick window that has an area of 2.00m22.00 \text{m}^{2}, assuming the same temperature difference across each.

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