For example when i go to take a bath if i leave the cold on too long it takes way more hot water to heat it back up then if the oppostie happens and i have to cool down a too hot bath with cold water? i know what i am trying to ask i hope it makes sense on here.
2006-08-30 11:05:02 · 5 answers · asked by purple dove 5 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
This is strictly a matter of the quantity of each at its temperature
2006-08-30 11:11:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is all about the differences between the temperatures. For instance, say you like 70 degree water, and the hottest your water heater makes your water is 80 degrees. If you add 50 degree water (twenty degrees below you desired level) it will take an equal amount of 90 degree water, but your heater doesn't go that high. So you are stuck with twice as much 80 degree water. If you could just learn to like bath water at a temperature exactly between the hotest and the coldest, you wouldn't have this problem.
I have yet to like that cool of water.
2006-08-30 11:11:24 · answer #2 · answered by Cadair360 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If the temperature differences are the same there would be no change. ie If you added 1 cup of 70 degree water to 1 cup of 50 degree water the result will be 60 degrees. Your example is not dealing with equals. You're adding 50 degree water to your 90 degree tub and then countering that with 100 degree water. The difference is too great.
2006-08-30 11:14:52 · answer #3 · answered by da_hammerhead 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because you have the added effect of room temperature, eg. if the room is 65 degrees, hot water will cool until it reaches 65; similarly cold water will become warmer until it reaches 65. If the hypothetical bathroom was hotter than the bath water the bath water would in fact not cool at all, but become even hotter until it reached the temperature of the bathroom.
2006-08-30 11:34:48 · answer #4 · answered by pol 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it truly is actual, in some certain, fastidiously managed circumstances, hotter water freezes swifter than less warm water. that's because the spoil out of warm temperature of evaporation may reason the hotter water to lose its warmth and crystalize immediately. It is going from being a liquid to good right now. Take a cup of boiling water outdoors in Antarctica, throw it in the air, and it will hit the floor as ice. Take a 2d cup of 40 degree F water, do a similar, and it will nonetheless be water even as it hits the floor.
2016-11-23 15:02:12 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋