Lumped, integral and differential formulation of general laws, statement of particular laws, initial and boundary conditions; steady one-dimensional conduction, principles of superposition; extended surfaces, power series solutions and Bessel functions, approximate solutions; steady two- and three-dimensional conduction, unsteady problems, separation of variables and orthogonal functions; steady periodic problems and complex temperature; finite difference formulation and numerical solutions; introduction to finite element formulation of conduction problems.