Connection for AP® Courses Relating to Heat and Heat Transfer Methods
The Earth’s interior remains molten despite its age due to energy from radioactive decay, illustrating the principles of heat transfer. This content explores temperature, thermal energy, and the mechanisms of heat transfer—conduction, convection, and radiation. Advanced Placement® and AP® are trademarks registered and/or owned by the College Board, which is not affiliated with, and does not endorse, this textbook.
Topics
- Breezy
- Chilling effect
- Conduction
- Convection
- Earth’s age
- Earth’s core
- Global temperature
- Gravitational potential energy
- Heat conduction
- Heat of fusion
- Heat of sublimation
- Heat of vaporization
- Heat transfer
- Infrared radiation
- Insulation
- Joule’s experiment
- Kilocalorie
- Latent heat
- Latent heat coefficient
- Mechanical equivalent of heat
- Phase change
- Quantum theory
- R factor
- Rate of conductive heat transfer
- Specific heat
- Sublimation
- Thermal conductivity
- Thermal system
- Thermographs
- Thunderheads
- Ultraviolet radiation
- Vaporization
- Violent storms
- Visible light
- Wind chill
- Greenhouse effect
- Energy
- Condensation
- Radiation
- Temperature
- Heat