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From a nearby heater (Plato i suspect)

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Q: Feeling heat on your hands is an example of radiation?
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Explain two ways that heat gets from fire to hands?

Radiation and sense of touch which is the receptors of our hands feeling things close to us


What is one example of heat transfer through radiation?

Heat transfer through radiation is probably best illustrated by the warming of the earth by the sun. Electromagnetic energy from the sun in the form of light travels through the vacuum of space to reach the earth and warm us.


Heat given off by a fireplace is an example of conduction convection radiation insolation?

The fireplace's heat is an example of radiation.


What is an example of transferring heat through radiation?

The earth receives heat from the sun as radiation


What makes a campfire an example of Radiation?

A campfire is an example of radiation because heat is being emitted from the fire. The heat is what is being radiated, and the heat is a characteristic of the campfire.


You can feel the heat wave from a small electric heater on your hands and face even though the heater is on the other side of the room this is an example of?

radiation


You can feel the heat waves from a small electric heater on your hands and face even though the heater is on the other side of the room this is an example of?

radiation


How can the body lose heat from radiation conduction and convection?

For example, you are touching something that feels like you are putting your hands into something very ice cold. That is how you can lose heat from your body.


What is heat you feel when you put your hands above fire?

Is it radiation when put hands above fire.


What is a radiation heat?

Radiation heat is heat that comes directly off its source in a straight line. For example heat coming off the sun.


Where is radiation used in every day life?

Prime example of radiation in our every day life is the heat we get from the sun (mostly radiation heat)


What is an Example of where energy transfer by radiation is occurring?

Some examples of energy transfer by radiation are: 1) standing in sunlight and feeling the heat on your face (UV radiation is entering the skin, converting to infrared radiation, and is absorbed by your tissues); 2) sitting near a fire and feeling the heat on your skin (infrared radiation transfer); 3) chemical reactions that occur due to a source of radioactivity (gamma radiation, being high-energy photons, travel from the radioactive source through the air into the target sample, and induce chemical reactions