heat transfer: Quick Facts

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A sequence of three diagrams shows heat transfer between two blocks: Block A, initially red and warmer, transfers heat to Block B, initially blue and cooler, until both blocks become the same purple color, indicating equal temperature and no more heat flow.

Heat flow through an ice cover (see text).

How heat is transferred and measured

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Topics

convection Condensation thermal conduction vaporization sensible transfer shock-heating Newton’s law of cooling circulation bulk transfer coefficient vertical mixing chemical bonding nuclear fission catalysis nuclear fusion deformation and flow friction diffusion work absorption adsorption

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Osborne Reynolds

British engineer and physicist

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James David Forbes

Scottish physicist