Can you explain the transferring heat by radiation and conduction?
Heat transfer: There are three main ways heat energy is transferred, but you only asked about two, radiation and conduction(convection is the other) Remember that temperature manifests itself in the random motion of the particles, the more thermal energy the molecules get, the more energetic they are in bouncing around(as described for gases by Kinetic energy=3/2KT, as T goes up, so does the gas molecules’ average energy) So in conduction, I take something that is hotter than something else, it has a higher temperature, meaning its molecules have more energetic random motion, and I touch it to the colder object(say, our hand touching a hot object) The faster more energetic molecules begin hitting the slower “cool” molecules, and via these collisions they transfer energy to them. They’re losing energy and slowing down while the slower molecules begin gaining energy, so the hotter object cools down, the cooler object heats up, and they both approach the same temperature somewhere in the
