When using a sling psychrometer, what happens to the two thermometers as the psychrometer is spun? How do these changes make it possible to measure relative humidity? Explain.
What will be an ideal response?
The dry bulb measures the ambient air temperature. The water evaporating off the wick extracts heat energy in the form of latent heat of evaporation so that the wet-bulb temperature is depressed in an amount dependent on the air’s ability to absorb water vapor—its relative humidity condition.
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