How do thermometers in a car work, how does it know temperature while car is stationary vs moving? Is there not a wind chill effect?
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Wind-chill effects you because you produce heat. The actual temperature of your skin never gets below the air temperature but the wind causes energy to leave you quicker so your skin gets to air temperature quicker
Thermometers aren’t effected by wind chill because they don’t make heat and are just trying to measure the air temperature not energy flows.
In your car, the thermometer is in the air intake so it pulls fresh air across it and doesn’t raise in temperature too much due to the engine heat.
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