Week 5 Post

Last week in class we assembled our heat pipe, and tested it using tap water. At first our results were bad, because we were not measuring the temperature at the point where the water was condensing. We also had an issue with our pipe leaking. But we fixed the leak and quickly figured out where we needed to measure from, and got some better data.

Table 1: Temperature of Heat Pipe at Timed Intervals

Time (sec)	Temperature (°F)
30	80
60	85
90	88
120	89
150	93
180	108
210	115
240	114

Next week in class we plan to test using acetone, and then methanol, and will be able to see how they compare with our results for water.