Conduction

What the syllabus asks of you

• Describe experiments to demonstrate the 2 Describe thermal conduction in all solids in properties of good thermal conductors and bad terms of atomic or molecular lattice vibrations thermal conductors (thermal insulators) and also in terms of the movement of free (delocalised) electrons in metallic conductors 3 Describe, in terms of particles, why thermal conduction is bad in gases and most liquids 4 Know that there are many solids that conduct thermal energy better than thermal insulators but do so less well than good thermal conductors