heat conduction
Energy through contact
Heat conduction is the transfer of thermal energy through direct contact between materials or within a single material, as molecules pass kinetic energy to their neighbors.
Metals conduct heat well; wood and fabric poorly.
The pot handle got hot through heat conduction from the flame.
Also called thermal conduction.
- metalsLustrous conductive elements
- copper pipesMetal plumbing conduits
- thermal pasteConductive cooling interface material
- thermal equilibriumEqual temperature throughout system
- thermodynamicsScience of heat-energy relationships
ceramics · polymers · microprocessors · diamond · insulators · thermal · building insulation · graphene · alloys · cooling systems · radiators · hot plate · flux · steady state · hot · flow · cold · fireproof
- Physics DemosNewton's cradle, pendulum, Van de Graaff, Tesla coil, inclined plane
- conduction types
- nonequilibriumirreversibility, dissipation, steady state, steady states, steady-state
- thermal propertiesthermal expansion, thermal diffusivity, boiling point, melting point, thermal equilibrium
- transport phenomenadiffusion, convection, flux, advection, gradient
heat conductionradiation
Energy propagation through space
convection · thermal radiation · electromagnetic radiation · radiant heat · infrared radiation
heat conductionthermal insulation
Material preventing heat transfer