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   Matt | Jan 20, 2009 10:46pm | #1

   That's pretty interesting....  More from a conceptual viewpoint...  Are there other lecture series on UTube relating to building topics?  I'll be searching for some...

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   homedesign | Jan 21, 2009 04:49am | #4

   Are there other lecture series on UTube relating to building topics?

   Matt, some of BuildingGeeks videos are interesting

   http://www.youtube.com/user/BuildingGeek

   The professor Julius Miller videos (remember him) are interesting in a conceptual way.

   Another good source for videos is http://www.BestofBuildingScience.com

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   Matt | Jan 21, 2009 05:25pm | #8

   John:

   Thanks for those links.  I'll use them.

   Yesterday it snowed here.  It snows here about once every 3 years so no one knows how to deal with it.  I know how to deal with it so I stayed home :-) and watched maybe 3 hrs of lectures I found on YouTube concerning Energy/Building related topics.

   I never knew YouTube was used for distributing college level material.  I thought it was all a bunch of goofy stuff.

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   homedesign | Jan 21, 2009 06:21pm | #9

   I thought it was all a bunch of goofy stuff.

   Matt...I think some of the extra technical stuff from the India Institute of Technology has only recently shown up on You tube ..maybe only a few months.

   My daughter tells me that MIT has some free to view stuff too..I just haven't found it yet.

   Try to search blower door (Or other bldg terms)etc when you go to you tube.

   be careful if you try to look up window flashing :-)

    

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   renosteinke | Jan 21, 2009 03:52am | #2

   IIT .... not to be confused with ITT ... is a respected private university, in Chicago, that focuses on engineering.

   IF those videos are anything like the "Heat and Mass transfer" class that is offered in Chicago, you won't get five minutes into them without calculus. Have your steam tables handy, too.

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   homedesign | Jan 21, 2009 04:43am | #3

   you won't get five minutes into them without calculus

   Reno, your not too far off about the caculus...It has been 30 years since I have used any calculus...so I admit that I am not up to speed.

   I just take their word for it that the calculus works and try to focus on the concepts. I am more interested in getting a better mental image of what is going on with conduction, Radiation and convection(in particular forced convection)

   They explain the difference between Fundamental Laws and Susidiary Laws.

   They talk about how coefficients of heat transfer are not constant.

   The examples that they use are not architectural but are helpful.

   One example illustrates the cooling of an IC chip by forced convection.

   There is also an analysis of a flat plate collector.

   I have only made it just a little past the first 3 hours so far...only 27 more to go.

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   mike585 | Jan 21, 2009 04:50am | #5

   In my last job I spent many years teaching heat transfer, fluid mechanics, and thermodynamics to naval personnel. Many of the enlisted people had no calculus background.  You can learn a lot without the calculus. Don't let that hold you back.

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   homedesign | Jan 21, 2009 05:08am | #6

   In my last job I spent many years teaching heat transfer, fluid mechanics, and thermodynamics to naval personnel.

   Mike..

   very interesting...adapting ideas from other fields is interesting.

   did you ever study air quality on submarines?

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   mike585 | Jan 21, 2009 05:44am | #7

   ...adapting ideas from other fields is interesting.

   I know.  That's why I hang out here. 

   My area was the nuke power plant.