A wet bulb measures the temperature after water evaporation allows to cool and a dry bulb measures air temperature.
How you would use a wet-bulb thermoter and a dry-bulb theremometer to fine the relative humidity?
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the "current" temperature, ie, the temperature at which wet bulb and dry bulb are the same. when the wet bulb and dry bulb temperaturs equalized the dew point emperature equals them, because the air is saturated now.
No, the humidity is high when wet and dry bulb temps are far apart.
You would use a sling psychrometer to measure both dry bulb and wet bulb temperature. The dry bulb thermometer measures the air temperature, while the wet bulb thermometer measures the temperature with evaporative cooling considered.
smoke it.
As the bulb dries the evaporation of water cools the bulb.
Because the process of evaporation absorbs heat from the bulb.
A psychrometer is a simple form of hygrometer, an instrument which measures relative humidity. The psychrometer compares the dry-bulb and wet-bulb air temperatures.The "whirling psychrometer" is an instrument for the measurement of the temperature and humidity of the air. It contains two Mercury-in-glass thermometers with a scale of minus 5 to plus 50 degrees Celsius, in 0.5 degree increments. One is an ordinary dry bulb thermometer and the other wet bulb thermometer whose bulb is surrounded by a piece of thin muslin, kept moist with distilled water.
Bulb temperature is typically lower than dry temperature because the bulb thermometer measures the temperature of the air without factoring in the effects of evaporation. The dry bulb temperature, on the other hand, accounts for the cooling effect of evaporation, giving a lower reading than the bulb temperature.
It is used to ready humidity levels. You compare the readings off the wet and dry bulb, then find the humidity on the chart (see Sling Psychrometer).