Essential Question: What are the three methods of heat transfer?The Transfer of Heat

Energy and Heat

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How is Heat Transferred?

Heat is transferred from warmer to cooler areas by conduction, convection, and radiation.

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Conduction

•The transfer of heat through SOLID objects.

•The process that heat is transferred from one particle of matter to another within an object or between two objects.

Conduction

Examples: The heat moving from a hot coffee cup to the spoon. The heat moving from a burner on the stove to the pot. The heat from your had to a chocolate candy

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ConvectionThe transfer of heat through liquids or gases (fluids).Example: The wind, a convection oven, lava lamp…

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Radiation

The transfer of heat through electromagnetic waves. Through empty space.

Examples: The sun, fire,…

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The Transfer of Heat

Use conduction to explain why you are more likely to see a wide, squat pot in the kitchen than a tall, narrow pot.

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