Showed Hewitt video on Heat Transfer, stopping often to emphasize important points. Showed demos of thermal conductivity and heating a balloon with and without water.
Emphasized the macroscopic and microscopic interpretations of hot air rising.
Showed equations for thermal conductivity - got it by intuiting it.
Showed sea breeze examples of convection
Showed Wien's Law and Stefan-Boltzmann equations for radiation. Gave examples of green house effect and power emitted by stars.
Students finished class by working in their packet on the Kinetic Theory.
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