Chapter 9.2
Heat: Thermal Equilibrium, Specific Heat, and Conduction
A metal bench and a wooden bench sit at the same temperature all night, yet at dawn only the metal one feels cold. Your hand measures flow, not temperature.
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By the end
- 01Describe heating and cooling as energy transfer by conduction, convection, and radiation
- 02Explain microscopically why net energy flows from hotter to colder until thermal equilibrium
- 03Compute the energy needed to change an object's temperature from its specific heat
- 04Compute the rate of conduction through a slab from conductivity, area, thickness, and temperature difference