Question 476General Subjects - Assistant Engineer

The correct answer is A) The wet bulb temperature. The wet bulb temperature is the temperature measured by a sling psychrometer, which is a device that has two thermometers - one that measures the dry air temperature and one that has a wetted wick covering the bulb. As air moves across the wetted wick, the temperature is lowered due to evaporative cooling, and this lower temperature is the wet bulb temperature. The wet bulb temperature provides information about the moisture content and relative humidity of the air, which is important for maritime applications. The other options are incorrect because the dew point temperature, saturation temperature, and dry air temperature are not directly measured by a sling psychrometer. These psychrometric properties can be derived from the wet bulb and dry bulb temperatures, but the sling psychrometer itself only measures the wet bulb temperature.