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What happens to the amount of energy in water when it goes from a gas to a liquid?
The water molecules release energy in the form of infrared photons that are absorbed by the surrounding air.
What is the Fate of the in infrared light incident on glass?
Typically, the IR energy is absorbed by the glass as heat.
What happens to sunlight hits earth surface?
It gets absorbed by the surface, reflected, and even radiated back as infrared rays where it is absorbed by the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
What happens after the light is absorbed by a radiometer?
After the light is absorbed by a radiometer, the black and white vanes inside start to rotate due to the thermal expansion of the air molecules around them. The rotation occurs because the black side absorbs more light and heats the air more than the white side, causing a pressure difference that drives the movement.
What happens to the energy in the wavelengths of light that are not reflected?
they are absorbed
How is visible light convert to infrared in greenhouse effect?
In the greenhouse effect, sunlight (which includes visible light) enters the Earth's atmosphere and warms the surface of the planet. This heat is then re-radiated as infrared radiation (heat energy) back towards space. However, greenhouse gases in the atmosphere trap some of this infrared radiation, causing the planet to heat up more than it would naturally.
What happens to wasted energy during energy transfers?
Wasted energy is typically released as heat to the surroundings during energy transfers. This energy is not used to perform useful work and is often referred to as thermal energy. Efforts to minimize wasted energy loss during energy transfers are important in increasing efficiency and reducing energy costs.
Explain as completely as possible why the asphalt was so much hotter than the concrete?
The concrete, being nearly white, reflected much of the Sun's infrared energy, while the asphalt, being black, absorbed much of the Sun's infrared energy. (Infrared radiation is associated with heat.)
What happens to beta alpha and gamma radiation after they are emitted?
Beta radiation consists of high-speed electrons, which lose their energy by interacting with matter and eventually stop. Alpha radiation is composed of helium nuclei, which lose energy quickly due to their large mass and double positive charge, leading them to stop within a short distance. Gamma radiation, being a high-energy electromagnetic wave, can penetrate through matter and lose its energy through interactions such as photoelectric effect or Compton scattering.
What happens to that energy from the sun that is absorbed by earth surface?
Energy from the sun that is absorbed by the Earth's surface is reflected back into the atmosphere or absorbed by land and water and transformed into heat.
What happens to the energy from the sun that is absorbed. by earths surface?
Energy from the sun that is absorbed by the Earth's surface is reflected back into the atmosphere or absorbed by land and water and transformed into heat.
What happens to the energy of light absorbed ina an absorbing filter?
It changes to heat energy.
