Question: Consider a flat-plate solar collector placed horizontally on the flat roof of a house. The collector is 1.5 m wide and 4.5 m long, and the average temperature of the exposed surface of the collector is 42°C. Determine the rate of heat loss from the collector by natural convection during a calm day when the ambient air temperature is 8°C. Also, determine the heat loss by radiation by taking the emissivity of the collector surface to be 0.85 and the effective sky temperature to be -15°C.