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Objectives 

Using the textbook as a guide, the objectives are to cover the fundamentals and the mathematics of several classic problems in heat transfer.

Assignments and Tests

There will be homework assignments, and a requirement for a written report on a heat transfer topic of interest to you.  There will be a midterm exam and a final exam. No late homework accepted without prior approval.

Grading 

Homework will count for 20% of the grade. We will have a midterm (25% of grade), a final (30% of grade), and a report (25%). Grades: A you did all work and understand all material well, B you understand most of material, C your understanding of material is only weak to good, D you don't understand much, F you didn't show up. Class is ranked by points earned and then I draw the grade lines based on my judgement of level understanding.

Textbook 

"Intermediate Heat Transfer" by Kau-Fui Vincent Wong, published by Marcel Dekker (2003). This book is available online at no charge. A hardcopy is also on reserve in the S&E library for this course.

REQUIREMENTS:
  1. You must have the Adobe Acrobat Reader PLUGIN installed in your web browser. Get  it here.
  2. You must access the book from campus, or from home with your browser set up to use the UCSD Proxy Server. See http://www-no.ucsd.edu/documentation/squid/index.html 
To read the book online, go to this page and click on the words "Read it Online!" Also note there is a link to buy a hardcopy.
http://www.mechanicalengineeringnetbase.com/ejournals/books/book_summary/summary.asp?id=2073 

You can save the book to your desktop for access off line. Keep your web browser open. Open the table of contents in your web browser, then save the table of contents PDF file to a folder on your desktop. Back in your web browser, the chapter headings in the table of contents are links to the chapters. Click on a chapter heading in the web browser and wait until the chapter loads, then save the chapter PDF file to the same folder on your desktop where the table of contents was saved. Then go back to the table of contents in the web browser and click on another chapter. Do this for all desired chapters. Then, off line, you can open the table of contents PDF file and click links in it to navigate to the local chapter PDF files. I can't do this for you and post it here because of copyright restrictions.

Resources on the web 

Here is an undergrad textbook for reference. "A Heat Transfer Textbook,"  3rd edition, by J. H. Lienhard IV and J. H. Lienhard V. You can download the PDF copy of the book from the web at no cost from http://web.mit.edu/lienhard/www/ahtt.html 

Also see the Notes and Links pages of this course web site.

Books on Reserve at the UCSD Science & Engineering Library  

The list of books on reserve for this courses is at  http://roger.ucsd.edu/search/r?SEARCH=mae+221a