The computer program LSAMPL collects the voltage, current, and temperature data; averages the measurements; corrects the temperature for spectral emissivity and window absorption; calculates resisitivity and hemispherical emissivity at each temperature; fits resistivity versus temperature and emissivity versus temperature data to least square polynomials; compares the fitted data to the experimental results giving calculated values, differences, maximum, average, and standard deviations; plots the results and stores the coefficients for thermal conductivity determinations and for comparison with repeated runs. Typical results for resistivity and hemispherical emissivity are plotted in Figures 13 and 14.
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