Department of Physics and Astronomy
Michigan State University
PHY231 Fall 1997

Lecture 27: October 31

No homework due today & Happy Halloween

Reading before class: C/J 13.1 & 13.4

Topics and Concepts

• Transfer of heat through convection
• Transfer of heat through conduction
• Transfer of heat through radiation
• Stefan-Boltzmann Law of Radiation

Equations

Examples

• Boiling water (C/J example 1, page 400)
• Heat transfer in the human body (C/J example 2, page 405)
• Iced-up refrigerator (C/J example 4, page 406)
• Radiation from a star (C/J example 6, page 410)

Handouts

• Electromagnetic spectrum

Reading for next class: C/J 14.1 - 14.3

PHY 231

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