From d1358d1430116c806ede6a6cf85d4db4d15fec09 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eugeniy Mikhailov <evgmik@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 15:21:06 -0400
Subject: small typo fix in the blackbody lab

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 blackbody.tex | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

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diff --git a/blackbody.tex b/blackbody.tex
index a3451ca..f59d13b 100644
--- a/blackbody.tex
+++ b/blackbody.tex
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ Before starting actual experiment take some time to have fun with the thermal ra
 
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-Imagine a metal wire connected to a cold reservoir at one end and a hot reservoir at the other.  Heat will flow between the ends of the wire, carried by the electrons in the conductor, which will tend to diffuse from the hot end to the cold end.  Vibrations in the conductor's atomic lattice can also aid this process. This diffusion causes a potential difference between the two ends of the wire. The size of the potential difference depends on the temperature gradient and on details of the conductive material, but is typically in the few to few 10s of $\mu V/ K$. A thermocouple, shown on the left, consists of two different conductive materials joined together at one end and connected to a voltmeter at the other end. The potential is, of course, the same on either side of the joint, but the difference in material properties causes $\Delta V=V_1 - V_2 \neq 0$. This $\Delta V$ is measured by the voltmeter and is proportional to $\Delta T$.  Your radiation sensor is a thermopile, simply a ``pile'' of thermocouples connected in series, as shown at the right. This is done to make the potential difference generated by the temperature gradient easier to detect. 
+Imagine a metal wire connected to a cold reservoir at one end and a hot reservoir at the other.  Heat will flow between the ends of the wire, carried by the electrons in the conductor, which will tend to diffuse from the hot end to the cold end.  Vibrations in the conductor's atomic lattice can also aid this process. This diffusion causes a potential difference between the two ends of the wire. The size of the potential difference depends on the temperature gradient and on details of the conductive material, but is typically in the few 10s of $\mu V/ K$. A thermocouple, shown on the left, consists of two different conductive materials joined together at one end and connected to a voltmeter at the other end. The potential is, of course, the same on either side of the joint, but the difference in material properties causes $\Delta V=V_1 - V_2 \neq 0$. This $\Delta V$ is measured by the voltmeter and is proportional to $\Delta T$.  Your radiation sensor is a thermopile, simply a ``pile'' of thermocouples connected in series, as shown at the right. This is done to make the potential difference generated by the temperature gradient easier to detect. 
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