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A steel spoon in hot tea becomes hot, a room heater warms the air above it, and the Sun warms the Earth across empty space. In this course we study conduction with the thermal conductivity, convection, and radiation with the laws of Stefan and Wien, and Newton's law of cooling, which tells us how fast a hot body cools.