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Heat Transfer
An index page for lots of information relating to heat transfer topics such as conduction and convection.
Conduction Heat Transfer
Conduction is heat transfer by means of molecular agitation within a material without any motion of the material as a whole.
Energy Transfers
Revision site aimed at UK GCSE level covering energy transfer and energy sources. Well presented with animated diagrams and some questions to try
Measuring Heats of Reaction: Calorimetry
Calculation of heat evolved per mole of substance. Examples with sucrose and reaction of NaOH and HCL.
Adiabatic Process
An adiabatic process is a process in which no heat is transferred. This can happen if the process happens so quickly that there is no time to transfer heat, or if the system is very well insulated ...
Radiation Heat Transfer
Page giving the Stephan-Boltzman radiation equation.
Convection
Description of how heat transfer by convection works.
Energy Transfer
A single page from the GCSE physics site talking about energy transfer, efficiency and Sankey Diagrams.
Specific Heat
The specific heat is the amount of heat per unit mass required to raise the temperature by one degree Celsius.
Heat Of Vaporization
Equation for determining the latent heat of fusion. Grams and calories used.




