HEAT-TRANSFER
HEAT-TRANSFER
HEAT-TRANSFER
RADIATION
• Heat transfer by radiation occurs when
microwaves, infrared radiation, visible light,
or another form of electromagnetic
radiation is emitted or absorbed.
• Radiation heat transfer is measured by a
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thermocouple is used for measuring the
CONDUCTION temperature. In this device sometimes,
Conduction is defined as the process of error takes place while measuring the
transmission of energy from one particle of the temperature through radiation heat
medium to another with the particles being in transfer.
direct contact with each other. Radiation Examples
1. Warming of the Earth by the Sun.
• An area of higher kinetic energy transfers 2. Thermal radiation from the human body.
thermal energy towards the lower kinetic
energy area. High-speed particles clash with
particles moving at a slow speed, as a result,
slow speed particles increase their kinetic
energy. This is a typical form of heat
transfer and takes place through physical
contact.
• Conduction is also known as thermal
conduction or heat conduction.
Conduction Examples
1. Ironing of clothes is an example of
conduction where the heat is conducted
from the iron to the clothes. Figure 2. In a fireplace, heat transfer occurs by all three
2. Heat is transferred from hands to ice cube methods: conduction, convection, and radiation.
resulting in the melting of an ice cube when Radiation is responsible for most of the heat transferred
held in hands. into the room. Heat transfer also occurs through
3. Heat conduction through the sand at the
conduction into the room, but at a much slower rate.
Heat transfer by convection also occurs through cold air
beaches. This can be experienced during
entering the room around windows and hot air leaving
summers. Sand is a good conductor of heat. the room by rising up the chimney.
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