Heat and temperature cannot be seen by the naked eye.1 But they can be visualized now using an affordable infrared (IR) camera. For those who do not have access to an IR camera, recorded videos of energy transformation or heat transfer may still be useful classroom demonstrations. These five YouTube videos present a set of IR imaging experiments that teach the concepts of heat capacity, conduction, radiation, convection, and latent heat. Each of these videos raises an interesting question that can bring inquiry to a deeper level. For more information about these experiments (and others), visit energy.concord.org/ir.
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Charles
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