Heat Loss in a House

These are a few files which were part of a long exchange in the newsgroup misc.consumers.house about heat loss in old houses.

heatloss.01 - my original post [WARNING: Contains some errors, fixed below]

heatloss.05 - table of some very detailed formulas sent me be David Brower

heatloss.20 - my followup post noting corrections to model

See also the directory ../position.sun in which the formulas for solar radiation gain are discussed.

Other pages at my own web site you may find of interest:

My home page is just a short introduction to the pages I maintain
The parent page to this one is another short way-station, this time to a few pages concerning "applications" of mathematics (well, let's call them "investigations only a mathematician would love").
I keep a large set of pages which provide a thematic introduction to the subject areas of modern mathematics, complete with answers to thousands of more or less common questions.

This page is

	http://www.math.niu.edu/~rusin/uses-math/heatloss/index.html

Last modified 1998/11/06 by Dave Rusin, rusin@math.niu.edu