Revisiting Lees and Chorlton Disc Experiment

Deepak Jain

Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College, University of Delhi

In this article we study one of the classic experiment performed at the undergraduate level: Determination of coefficient of thermal conductivity, K, by Lees and Chorlton method. This work is an attempt to give the detailed analysis of the principle, theory, procedure and sources of error of the Lees and Chorlton experiment.