Talk:Temperature gradient

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I re-wrote the article entirely to


 * add information as well as pointers to other pages.


 * remove the paragraph about "difference in temperature caused by fluids working with or against gravity" which was wrong or meaningless: the presence of particular gases at a certain altitude in the atmosphere is linked to their temperature (kinetic energy), not to the temperature gradient.


 * replace the references by more appropriate ones, giving credit to early landmark publications as well as recent overviews (the ones originally provided were either incorrect or too simplistic).


 * remove the stub pointer.

--Michel M Verstraete 22:47, 5 June 2006 (UTC).

can anybody else verify the definition used here?
"The temperature gradient is a dimensional quantity expressed in units of degrees (on a particular temperature scale) per unit time. The SI unit is kelvin per second (K/s). It can be found in the formula for dQ/dt, the rate of heat transfer per second."

i might be unaware of this specific definition, but isn't a temperature gradient normally defined as the change in temperature in a direction (K/m)? also, wouldn't a better analogy would be fourier's law?

-hope i did this right 5.29.227.50 (talk) 01:12, 21 August 2019 (UTC)