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Module 1: Short Questions

The document contains 10 short questions about heat transfer that assess understanding of key concepts like the driving forces behind heat, electric current, and fluid flow; thermal properties of materials; orders of magnitude of thermal conductivity and convection heat transfer coefficients; conditions affecting radiation heat transfer; energy required for constant volume and constant pressure heating of an ideal gas; possibility of heat transfer in a vacuum; mechanisms of thermal conduction; and relationship between heat flow lines and isotherms for conduction and convection.

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Module 1: Short Questions

The document contains 10 short questions about heat transfer that assess understanding of key concepts like the driving forces behind heat, electric current, and fluid flow; thermal properties of materials; orders of magnitude of thermal conductivity and convection heat transfer coefficients; conditions affecting radiation heat transfer; energy required for constant volume and constant pressure heating of an ideal gas; possibility of heat transfer in a vacuum; mechanisms of thermal conduction; and relationship between heat flow lines and isotherms for conduction and convection.

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Module 1: Short questions

1. What is the driving force for (a) heat transfer (b) electric current flow and (c) fluid
flow?

2. Which one of the following is not a property of the material ?


A. thermal conductivity
B. heat transfer coefficient
C. emissivity

3. What is the order of magnitude of thermal conductivity for (a) metals (b) solid
insulating materials (c) liquids (d) gases?

4. What is the order of magnitude for the convection heat transfer coefficient in free
convection? Forced convection? Boiling?

5. When may one expect radiation heat transfer to be important?

6. An ideal gas is heated from 50 ºC to 70 ºC (a) at constant volume and (b) at


constant pressure. For which case do you think the energy required will be
greater? Why?

7. A person claims that heat cannot be transferred in a vacuum. How do you respond
to this claim?

8. Discuss the mechanism of thermal conduction in gases, liquids and solids.

9. Name some good conductors of heat; some poor conductors.

10. Show that heat flow lines must be normal to isotherms in conduction heat transfer.
Will it be true for convection heat transfer?

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