Physics GCSE
Cooling of buildings
What Cooling of buildings means in Physics GCSE, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Cooling of buildings
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Reference: OCR
A warm building cools because energy is transferred through its walls to the cooler outside; the comparison concerns the rate, not the total energy, which is conserved.
Topics that use Cooling of buildings
- Power and efficiency (OCR GCSE)
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