Which law states that the rate of heat transfer through a material is proportion

Practice Questions

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Which law states that the rate of heat transfer through a material is proportional to the negative gradient of temperature?
  1. Newton's Law of Cooling
  2. Fourier's Law of Heat Conduction
  3. Stefan-Boltzmann Law
  4. Kirchhoff's Law

Questions & Step-by-Step Solutions

Which law states that the rate of heat transfer through a material is proportional to the negative gradient of temperature?
  • Step 1: Understand that heat transfer is the movement of thermal energy from one place to another.
  • Step 2: Learn that temperature is a measure of how hot or cold something is.
  • Step 3: Recognize that a gradient is a change or difference in something, in this case, temperature.
  • Step 4: Know that 'negative gradient' means that heat moves from a higher temperature area to a lower temperature area.
  • Step 5: Identify that there is a specific law that describes this process of heat transfer.
  • Step 6: This law is called Fourier's Law of Heat Conduction.
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