About This Course
meriSTEM Thermal Physics module will take you through temperature, heat, conduction, convection, radiation, energy efficiency and entropy. Introduced by meriSTEM expert contributors and brought to life by your teacher.
Course sub-topics
- Temperature
- Heat
- Heat problems
- Latent heat
- Heat transport
- Radiation
- Kinetic Theory
- Kinetic theory and molecules
- Using energy
Information for teachers
View how the content of meriSTEM courses align with the Australian Curriculum and syllabuses in all Australian states on our website.
To access downloadable detailed teacher outlines and hundreds of lesson resources, you can join our meriSTEM Teacher Community.
Course Staff
Paul Francis
Paul Francis is an astrophysicist at the Australian National University. His research interest include comets, Lyman-alpha blobs and quasars. He is teaching a series of massive open online courses (MOOCs). He is also first year coordinator for Physics, and teaches first year university physics. He has won many prizes for teaching and science communication.
meriSTEM resources are Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 licensed.