Soils 414 - Environmental Biophysics
Related Quotes
Regarding heat exchange:
"My desk on which I now write, and the lock of my desk, are both exposed
to the same temperature of the air, and have therefore the same degree
of heat or cold; yet if I lay my hand successively on the wood and
on the metal, the later feels much the coldest, not that it is really so,
but being a better conductor, it more readily than the wood takes away
and draws into itself the fire that was in my skin." - Benjamin Franklin,
early Americal statesman, inventor, printer, and scientist.
Regarding wind:
"Great whirls have little whirls
That feed on their velocity;
And little whirls have lesser whirls,
And so on to viscosity."
- L.F. Richardson (responsible for
much of the theory of atmospheric
turbulence)
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