Home work 1

1. What is the driving force for (a) heat transfer,

(b) electric current flow, and (c) fluid flow?
2. What is heat flux? How is it related to the heat
transfer rate?
3. Define thermal conductivity and explain its
significance in heat transfer.
4. What are the mechanisms of heat transfer?
How are they distinguished from each other?

5. What is the physical mechanism of heat

conduction in a solid, a liquid, and a
gas?
6. Consider heat transfer through a
windowless wall of a house in a winter
ay. Discuss the parameters that affect
the rate of heat conduction through the
wall.
7. Write down the expressions for physical
laws that govern each mode of heat
ransfer, and identify the variables
involved
in
each
relation.

8. How does heat conduction differ from

convection?
9. Does any of the energy of the sun reach the earth
by conduction or convection?
10. How does force convection differ from natural
convection?
11. Define emissivity and absorptivity. What is
Kirchhoffs law of radiation?
12. What is blackbody? How do real bodies differ
from blackbodies?
13. Explain the term of Greenhouse effect on earth
and give solutions on how to tackle the problem.