Fourier looked at heat flowing through building materials, and his experimental results produced ideas such as thermal conductivity, resistance and the thermal transmission co-efficient or u-value. Read the rest of this entry »
Fourier’s Law
2005-11-29
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Energy and Heat Transfer
2005-11-22Energy is applied in the form of heat, light or sound.
If energy, in the form of heat, is applied to a solid, the molecules become excited enough to Read the rest of this entry »
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