12.002 | Fall 2008 | Undergraduate

Physics and Chemistry of the Terrestrial Planets

Lecture Notes

Concepts for Heat Convection

Description:

Lecture notes on concepts for heat convection, density and temperature, the mantle adiabat, viscous deformation, and the Rayleigh number.

Resource Type:
Lecture Notes
pdf
194 kB
Concepts for Heat Convection

Course Info

Learning Resource Types
Lecture Notes
Problem Sets