Unit 10: Body Heat and The Fight for Life

Learner Objectives

  1. Compare, contrast, and convert between absolute and relative temperature scales.[1]
  2. Evaluate the effectiveness of various types of insulation against different mechanisms of heat transfer.[3]
  3. Apply the concepts of temperature, thermal expansion, specific heat, heat capacity, and latent heat, to analyze how physical objects respond to heat transfer.[3]
  4. Apply the Second Law of Thermodynamics to predict the outcome of physical scenarios.[2]

 

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