five-fourths power law

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five-fourths power law [¦fīv ¦fȯrths ′pau̇·ər ‚lȯ]

(thermodynamics)

The proposition that the rate of heat loss from a body by free convection is proportional to the five-fourths power of the difference between the temperature of the body and that of its surroundings.

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