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Heat Loss from Buildings
This engineering resource, produced by Mathematics in Education and Industry (MEI) for the Royal Academy of Engineering, asks the question: how can the most efficient design be determined, taking both building and running costs into account?
The introduction considers the thermal conductivity of different materials graphically to help decide which material should be used. There follows an explanation of the concept of kilowatt hours. A video accompanies the resource explaining thermal conductivity.
The mathematics covered in this activity is:
• Solve problems involving area, perimeter and volume
• Use scale drawings
• Work with formulae for the areas and perimeters of plane shapes
• Work with formulae for surface areas and volumes of regular solids
• Be able to draw graphs by constructing a table of values
• Be able to extract information from a graph
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