Units of Heat Transfer
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Description
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Heat transfer has the dimension mass per time cubed thermodynamic temperature. The SI composite unit of heat transfer is the kilogram per second cubed kelvin.
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Maple knows the units of heat transfer listed in the following table.
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Name
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Symbols
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Context
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Alternate Spellings
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Prefixes
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Ufactor
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standard *
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Ufactors
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USI @
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SI
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An asterisk ( * ) indicates the default context, an at sign (@) indicates an abbreviation, and under the prefixes column, SI indicates that the unit takes all SI prefixes, IEC indicates that the unit takes IEC prefixes, and SI+ and SI- indicate that the unit takes only positive and negative SI prefixes, respectively. Refer to a unit in the Units package by indexing the name or symbol with the context, for example, tog[standard]; or, if the context is indicated as the default, by using only the unit name or symbol, for example, tog.
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The units of heat transfer are defined as follows.
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A standard U factor is defined as international table Btu per hour square foot degree Fahrenheit.
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An SI U factor (USI) is defined as watt per square meter kelvin.
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Examples
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