Lecture 02 (2016) Transient heat conduction. Lectures by Prof Josua Meyer

This lecture continues with the lumped system approach. Two examples are presented and these were then analysed for appropriateness; with specifically the Biot number. The fundamentals of the Biot number is also considered. This lecture is Lecture 02 (2016), the second of eight lectures that was based on the textbook of Cengel and Ghajar (5th edition) and was presented as part of a heat transfer class to the fourth year students of the Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering by Prof Josua Meyer, Head of the Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering of the University of Pretoria, South Africa. Lecture was presented on 2 February 2016.