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Explores latent heat, enthalpy, and thermal comfort in heat transfer processes.

Evaporation vs Boiling: Phase Change Efficiency

Explores the efficiency of phase change processes, focusing on evaporation and boiling, differentiating between the two and discussing the various regimes of pool boiling.

Heat Equation: Modeling and Numerical Methods

Covers the heat equation, its physical interpretation, and numerical methods for solving it.

Calorimetric Coefficients

Covers the definitions and relationships between calorimetric coefficients in perfect gases.

Heat Pumps: Phase Changes

Explores heat pump operation, phase changes, and latent heat in thermodynamics.

Phase Changes and Heat Latent: Water in Different Forms

Explores phase changes and latent heat in water, covering topics like heat pumps, climate impact, and ozone layer depletion.

Heat Exchange and Psychrometric Diagrams

Explores heat exchange, psychrometric diagrams, and the importance of latent heat.

Specific Heat and Latent Heat in Matter States

Explores heat exchange, specific heat, and latent heat in different materials and phase transitions.

Solar Astronomy: Equinoxes and Solstices

Delves into solar astronomy, focusing on equinoxes, solstices, Earth-Sun axis, and geocentric coordinates.

Science of climate change: radiation

Explores the impact of radiation on climate, covering the Earth's energy balance, biosphere, cryosphere, and carbon cycle.

Thermodynamics: Heat - Work

Explores energy forms, work exchanges, heat transfers, and a program for Africa.

Heat Transfer Fundamentals

Explores heat transfer mechanisms, including conduction, convection, and radiation, and the principles of energy conservation and entropy increase.

Advanced Physics I: Orders of Magnitude

Explores the triumph of determinism in modern mechanics and the methodology of scientific development, with practical exercises on estimating surgical mask usage and analyzing atomic bomb energy.

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Calorimetric Coefficients: Ideal Gas

Explores calorimetric coefficients for ideal gases, focusing on specific heat capacities and their relationships.

Heat Transfer Fundamentals

Explores heat transfer principles, laws of thermodynamics, and thermal system evolution.

Thermal Storage: Sensible and Latent

Explores sensible and latent thermal storage in energy systems with examples from Italy and the USA.

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Advanced Physics I: Angular Momentum

Explores angular momentum, central forces, and gravitational theory, including Kepler's laws and Newton's approach.

Radiative Exchange in Heat Transfer: View Factors and Properties

Discusses radiative exchange principles, focusing on view factors and their applications in heat transfer calculations.