Imperial College London
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DrHenryBurridge

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Senior Lecturer
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 5201h.burridge Website

 
 
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Assistant

 

Miss Rebecca Naessens +44 (0)20 7594 5990

 
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Location

 

328ASkempton BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Burridge:2016:10.1038/srep37665,
author = {Burridge, HC and Linden, PF},
doi = {10.1038/srep37665},
journal = {Scientific Reports},
title = {Questioning the Mpemba effect: hot water does not cool more quickly than cold},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep37665},
volume = {6},
year = {2016}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - The Mpemba effect is the name given to the assertion that it is quicker to cool water to a given temperature when the initial temperature is higher. This assertion seems counter-intuitive and yet references to the effect go back at least to the writings of Aristotle. Indeed, at first thought one might consider the effect to breach fundamental thermodynamic laws, but we show that this is not the case. We go on to examine the available evidence for the Mpemba effect and carry out our own experiments by cooling water in carefully controlled conditions. We conclude, somewhat sadly, that there is no evidence to support meaningful observations of the Mpemba effect.
AU  - Burridge,HC
AU  - Linden,PF
DO  - 10.1038/srep37665
PY  - 2016///
SN  - 2045-2322
TI  - Questioning the Mpemba effect: hot water does not cool more quickly than cold
T2  - Scientific Reports
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep37665
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/43141
VL  - 6
ER  -
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