Causes of Enlarged Prostate. BPH is a benign (non-cancerous) enlargement of the prostate that is extremely common in older men. It is generally thought to be caused by years of exposure to male hormones like testosterone. While BPH is benign and cannot spread to other parts of the body, it can cause problems.
1 Conduction is the transfer of thermal energy through direct contact between particles of a substance, without moving the particles to a new location.
Thermal Energy and the Link to Temperature. Finally, we must know what thermal energy is. Before that, we must appreciate that different substances behave differently. Some can take in a lot of heat while some can take in a little heat before a temperature change is recorded. This is called the specific heat capacity of the substance and it varies from substance to substance. Temperature as before was defined as the average energy of molecular motion of a substance.