The Science of Heat Transfer
Like Duolingo, but for The Science of Heat Transfer. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.
A short one: 26 levels across 3 sections, about 52 minutes end to end, roughly 10 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Master the Heat You Can Touch, Control the Air and Water, and Cook with Invisible Energy. It starts from scratch.
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Key ideas in The Science of Heat Transfer
- Heat as kinetic energy of vibrating atoms
- Conduction requires physical contact
- Higher temperatures result in violent vibrations
- Energy transfer through successive collisions
- Energy transfer is a result of high-energy particles bumping into low-energy ones
- The relationship between temperature and atomic motion
- Thermal equilibrium occurs when vibrations are balanced across the material
- The sequence of energy transfer in conduction
- Temperature perception is based on the rate of heat leaving the skin
- Free electrons act as high-speed energy carriers in metals
- Metals conduct heat away from the hand much faster than wood
- Non-metals rely primarily on slower atom-to-atom vibrations
- Metals have a dual mechanism for conduction
- Why metals feel colder than wood at the same temperature
- Insulators lack the free electron 'shortcut' for heat
- Mapping material types to their heat-carrying mechanism
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives The Science of Heat Transfer the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
If you could zoom in on a hot solid object, what would you actually see happening at the atomic level?
Get it right to open this lesson and 25 more in the app.
Where The Science of Heat Transfer takes you
Ever wonder why a spoon gets hot in soup or how a toaster works without touching your bread? Explore the physics of how energy moves through atoms, fluids, and empty space.
- 1
Master the Heat You Can Touch
- The Atomic Domino Effect
- Why Metal Handles Get Hot
- Conductors vs Insulators
- How Heat Travels Through Solids
- 2
Control the Air and Water
- The Physics of Rising Heat
- Boiling Water and Moving Currents
- How Fluids Carry Energy
- The Magic of Convection Fans
- Breaking the Invisible Air Barrier
- Density and the Convection Loop
- 3
Cook with Invisible Energy
- Heat Waves You Cannot See
- How Energy Travels Through a Vacuum
- The Science of Radiant Glow
3 sections · 13 units · 26 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
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