The real answer lies within Natural Convection. Who's excited about Natural Convection. Best topic ever!, along with Forced Convection, and Radiation, and of course Conduction
Bring pen and paper to record your data in the wind tunnel lab! But if you're going digital, you can print this file made just for you :)
https://t.co/uJjFG9XhVK
Quiz1: 5 questions. Time limit: 50mins. Open book. Plan ahead and have equations/formulas ready. The 50mins provides sufficient time assuming you have studied. Good luck and if there's any problems, take a screenshot and send it through as evidence and we can help.
Great work to the students who submitted Wk 3 pre-class question. Try to do it before the class yo get the most out the lectorial and computer lab this week
This is my brick wall in the backyard, exposed to 30-deg today, and therefore absorbing lots of Joules/sec. But it’s windy too, maybe h=100W/m^2K. Tonight it will be cooler, what will happen in terms of heat transfer?
Submit your Week 2 homework solutions before the lectorial for the bonus grade!
This week there are two questions, which we'll select the best solution for both questions for a total of 2 bonus grades!!
So far there hasn't been any solutions uploaded yet for Week 2.
How do animals keep warm laying in snow?
Avoiding direct heat loss AND using air to insulate them!
Fur makes a layer keeping their skin from direct snow contact (and heat transfer) and the air trapped in their coats keeps heat IN like triple pane windows!
#science
And we’re off! Semester 1 face to face teaching. It’s been so long and we’re so excited to see all the students once again. Hope you can make it to all your lessons this semester- with Teacher Patrick 😎
I am so excited to see as many of you for the lectorial, and lab sessions. Let's get this semester started with a joke, because I love them and you'll have to put up with them in class.
"Which is faster, heat or cold?"
.... heat because you can catch a cold.