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Why would a radiator transfer heat quicker to a metal spoon in contact than to the air surrounding?
Because metals a good conducors of heat
What heats up and cools down the slowest land or air?
Land heats up and cools down the slowest. The reason for this is because it takes little energy to heat air compared to what it takes to heat land. Land has a higher heat capacity than air. That means it takes more thermal (heat) energy to raise the temperature of a volume of earth a couple of degrees than it does to raise the temperature of the same volume of air a couple of degrees. To heat land rather than air, it takes more heat energy and more time. As regards cooling, it takes more time to cool land than air because it takes more time for the heat energy to get out of the land. You've experienced "heat capacity" before. If you touch a metal handrail on a hot day, it burns a bit. There is a lot of heat in that metal handrail, and it is being transferred to your hand. And transferred, and transferred. All that heat in there wants to get into your cooler hand. The heat capacity of metal is fairly high. It holds a lot of heat. Land has a lot of heat capacity, too.
How does forced air heating work?
Forced air heating works by the warm air being pumped through the system and pipes so that it radiates the heat out into the room. This is a quicker but more expensive way of heating than convection.
What happens to air particles when air expands?
All the particles gain more energy (i.e from heat) and move quicker and therefore they spread out causing air to expand
Why does a securely tied balloon deflate and why is it quicker on a warm day?
The heat expands the balloon causing it to expel air.
Why does land warm and cool more quickly than water and how does it affect your air temperature?
Diffusion of heat from land is quicker than water. thus temperature of air on land flactutes faster than in the ocean.
Does air heat more slowly than land?
no
Why would a radiator transfer heat quicker to a metal spoon in contact than to the air surrounding?
Because metals a good conducors of heat
Why does the air temperature get warmer quicker than water?
Heat travels faster in water because the molecules are more tightly packed than the molecules in air, allowing more contact with ice and greater rate of heat transfer.
What cause a land breeze?
At night, the land looses heat faster than water does. Cooler air from the land moves toward the water, causing a land breeze.
Why is the air colder than the land?
Water has a very high specific heat capacity, meaning it takes more energy to heat it up than most substances and it releases more energy than it heats down. Additionally, water can circulate, so that heat gets distributed to a greater depth than it can with solid earth. As a result, land heats up faster in the day and cools down more slowly at night than water does. For this reason, air over land tends to be warmer in the day an cooler at night than air over water.
Why does it get windy?
The beach lies at the interface of the ocean and the land. These two bodies heat and cool at very different rates, and this unequal heating/cooling of the air causes the local coastal winds. As distinct from the meteorological winds, which are caused by upper atmosphere conditions. This is called the transmission of heat (Convection currents produced by sea breeze and land breeze). Sea and land breezes On a hot day, the land heats up faster than the sea. Hot air over the land rises. This hot air is replaced by cold, denser air from the sea. This produces a breeze from the sea to the land. The breeze is called a sea breeze. At night, the land cools quicker than the sea. The hot air over the sea rises. Cold air from the land replaces the hot air. This produces a land breeze.
What causes land breezes?
At night, the land cools faster than the sea, due to specific heat. So the air above the land sinks and blows towards the ocean, causing land breezes.During the day, air rising from the land draws in cooler air from the ocean, creating a sea breeze.
What heats up and cools down the slowest land or air?
Land heats up and cools down the slowest. The reason for this is because it takes little energy to heat air compared to what it takes to heat land. Land has a higher heat capacity than air. That means it takes more thermal (heat) energy to raise the temperature of a volume of earth a couple of degrees than it does to raise the temperature of the same volume of air a couple of degrees. To heat land rather than air, it takes more heat energy and more time. As regards cooling, it takes more time to cool land than air because it takes more time for the heat energy to get out of the land. You've experienced "heat capacity" before. If you touch a metal handrail on a hot day, it burns a bit. There is a lot of heat in that metal handrail, and it is being transferred to your hand. And transferred, and transferred. All that heat in there wants to get into your cooler hand. The heat capacity of metal is fairly high. It holds a lot of heat. Land has a lot of heat capacity, too.
Why is ocean water cold at day?
Water changes temperature much more slowly than air does. The land gets warmer as it absorbs heat from the sun, but the water is slower to absorb the heat, so it stays cooler than the land. However at night, the water retains more heat than the land, so that it will often be warmer than the surrounding air, at least for a while.
How does radiation convection and conduction effect land breezes?
The air is in direct contact with the heated earth (conduction). Heat rises and is replaced by cool air, and that is when we feel a breeze (convection). The heat rising in waves is also known as radiation.
Does the sun heat the land or the air more?
land
