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Heat Transfer Unlocked
A Complete Guide to Conduction, Convection, and Radiation from Fundamentals to Applications
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Independently Published Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P34808367
EAN: 9798185947852
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Zustellung: Mi, 07.10.2026
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CHF 39.75
Beschreibung
Your coffee always goes cold. The Earth never does. The difference is the most important physics you've never studied. Heat is on the move everywhere, all the time - flowing through walls, rising off pavement, radiating across 93 million miles of empty space to warm your face. Understanding how it moves is the key to everything from cooking a steak to cooling a data center to keeping a spacecraft alive. Roy Hawthorne unlocks the entire subject in clear, vivid language, building from the first principles of temperature to the design of real thermal systems. Inside, you will discover: - What heat actually is. - and why it is not the same thing as temperature- The three great modes. - conduction, convection, and radiation, and how to recognize each one at work- Fourier's law. - the elegant rule that governs heat flowing through every solid object around you- The electrical analogy. - the engineer's trick that turns thermal problems into simple circuits- Boundary layers. - the invisible films of fluid that control how fast everything heats and cools- Blackbody radiation. - how everything above absolute zero glows, including you- The greenhouse effect. - the atmospheric radiation balance that keeps Earth habitable- Real-world thermal design. - heat exchangers, insulation and R-values, cooling fins, and keeping electronics alive From the physics of a cooling cup of coffee to the thermal management inside your phone, this is the complete guide to the invisible flows shaping your world - explained so anyone can follow. Heat is always moving. Learn to see where it goes.