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Heat Applets

What is evaporation?
Nice animation from absorblearning.com
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What's going on when water boils?
Nice example from absorblearning.com
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Specific Heat Capacity
 
 
Convection
 
Cool demonstration of convection
All you need is a tea-bag (of the herbal variety). From Youtube. Two minutes
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Convection, sea-floor spreading and plate movement
Nice animatin from absorblearning.com
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Did you know you can heat a water balloon with a candle?
Another one to try in class or at home. Very cool. From Youtube. 30 seconds
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animation of convection in water
Conduction
animation of kinetic motion of a rod being heated
Firewalking
Youtube 16 second
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Longest distance firewalk. Youtube 6 minutes
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A scientific viewpoint from sceptic Michael Shermer Youtube 7 minutes
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Latent Heat
 
Heating curve for steraic acid
From absorblearning.com
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Cooling curve for steraic acid
From absorblearning.com
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Melting ice
From absorblearning.com
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Radiation
Man tossing hot and cold water balloons (thermal infrared!). From Youtube. 45 seconds.
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Use salt to help cool a can of coke
They should have used a thermometer to indicate the temperature. Why not try it yourself? Metacafe. 2 minutes
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Watch as water freeezes while heating up!
Thought-provokiing clip to test your understanding of latent heat. Youtube 3 minutes
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