0
Some snakes (i.e. the pit vipers) can actually see infrared using a pair of tiny pits that act like infrared pinhole cameras.
All snakes feel the warmth of infrared and seek it out to warm their bodies (they are "cold blooded" and unable to warm themselves).
Wiki User
∙ 9y ago
Add your answer:
Earn +20 pts
A heat lamp produces what radiation?
Heat travels in the form of infrared radiation. You don't use radiation todetect radiation. You use a detector that responds to the type of radiationyou're trying to detect. In the case of infrared radiation, your skin makes anexcellent detector.
What is heat transfer by radiation?
All objects transfer thermal energy by infra-red radiation. The hotter an object is, the more infra-red radiation it gives off. No particles are involved in radiation, unlike conduction and convection. This means that thermal energy transfer by radiation can even work in space, but conduction and convection cannot. One good example is the sun. Even though it is millions of kilometers away in space, we can still feel its heat. The thermal energy is transferred by electromagnetic waves.
What is an example of solar radiation?
The sun is the best example of radiation because, of the three processes of heat transfer (conduction, convection, radiation), the sun only radiates heat energy.Conduction occurs through matter, and we are separated from the sun by an absence of matter (vacuum).Convection is the movement of a fluid, carrying heat. Although there is a solar wind, it is very very tenuous - a vacuum.You can step outside and feel the sun's radiation (infrared) on your skin, see the light with your eyes.
What are some examples of infared radiation?
Part of the radiation we receive from the Sun is infrared.Any object emits radiation, depending on its temperature; for temperatures below 800 °C or so, all of this radiation will be infrared. If the object is fairly hot, you can clearly feal the heet - but even if you don't feel it, it is still there.
How does the sun give off heat?
The warmth you feel come from the Infrared rays.
Is the heat you feel from a fireplace radiation?
Yes, you feel infrared radiation a form of electromagnetic radiation.
A heat lamp produces what radiation?
Heat travels in the form of infrared radiation. You don't use radiation todetect radiation. You use a detector that responds to the type of radiationyou're trying to detect. In the case of infrared radiation, your skin makes anexcellent detector.
Food being warmed by infrared light is heat transfer by?
Thermal Radiation.Radiation.There are three main types of heat transfer methods in Thermodynamics. Radiation, Convection, and Conduction. Food warmed by infrared light is heat transfer by radiation. What you feel coming from the infrared lamp is radiant heatenergy.
How is infrared radiation used for?
Infrared is heat. When you feel the warmth of a space heater, you feel the effect of infrared radiation. The other uses are motion detection (infrared sensor) and night-vision (live animals have a heat signature, a blurred image, against a colder background at night). ======================
Does infrared radiation penetrate through smoke?
Yes, long-wave infrared will penetrate even very dense smoke. That's why thermal imagers are effective in firefighting. For instance, you can feel the heat (infrared spectrum) through smoke, but you cannot usually see through smoke (visible spectrum).
You feel what waves as heat?
what we feel as heat is "long infrared radition". "Short infrared radiation" is what your remote uses to control your tv (for some reason this appeared in Terminator 4)
The energy you feel as heat from an electric burner is carried by electromagnetic waves called?
infrared radiation
What can you use infrared radiation for?
When you sit near a fire you will feel the warmth of infrared radiation on your bare skin. Infrared radiation can be used to supply heat to a room. Although our eyes cannot see infrared there are electronic devices than can. Vehicles, animals and people give off infrared, even in the dark, and these devices can be used like ordinary video cameras to view scenes when our eyes are essentially useless to us.
What are some of the dangers of infrared radiation?
It is very unlikely for infrared radiation to have a dangerous effect on people. Normally, it will just make a person feel warmer. High levels can lead to burns and very rarely, cataracts in the eyes.
What type of unique vision do snakes have?
Snakes have a thermal vision which means that they can feel the warmth of their prey's blood and body and can go near it by scanning the warmth
What is heat transfer by radiation?
All objects transfer thermal energy by infra-red radiation. The hotter an object is, the more infra-red radiation it gives off. No particles are involved in radiation, unlike conduction and convection. This means that thermal energy transfer by radiation can even work in space, but conduction and convection cannot. One good example is the sun. Even though it is millions of kilometers away in space, we can still feel its heat. The thermal energy is transferred by electromagnetic waves.
What does infrared measure?
Infrared measures thermal radiation, or heat In a object/body -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The above is not quite correct. The "infrared" is the name given to a part of the electromagnetic spectrum - light (that humans can not see but can feel) that exists beyond the red light color we can see. This colored light is emitted by warm objects and we also call it "heat". Just as there is a rainbow of colors in the light we can see which relates to the energy of the emitting source, there are different colors of infrared light and these characteristic how hot the emitting source is. Thus measurement of the infrared spectrum can tell you how hot something is.
