Heat Transfer Methods
Helpful before this lesson
- Not completed: Heat and Thermal Energy Transfer
- Not completed: Temperature and Thermometers
- Not completed: Kinetic Theory and Particle Motion
These topics can make this lesson easier, but you can start now.
Learning Objectives
- Students will be able to distinguish between conduction, convection, and radiation
- Students will be able to explain the mechanism of each heat transfer method at the particle level
- Students will be able to identify which transfer methods occur in different situations
Core Concepts
- conduction
- convection
- radiation
- thermal_contact
- electromagnetic_waves
- density_difference