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What is the process by which gases in the atmosphere absorbs thermal energy and radiate it back to earth?
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Which process is required to allow a gravitationally-collapsing gas cloud to continue to collapse?
The cloud must radiate a lot of its thermal energy.
Do stars radiate heat energy?
Like the Sun, all the stars are radiating heat all the time. They lose the heat (or thermal energy) through radiation.
How does a spacecraft resist burning up from extreme heat?
As a spacecraft enters the atmosphere, it will travel at a tremendously high speed. The friction from the air rubbing against the spacecraft causes lots of heat. To protect against this heat, spacecraft use heat shields. Most spacecraft use blunt, spherical, or conic heat shields which help slow the vehicle down, and dissipate the heat in the surrounding air. These heat shields are also usually made out of abalative material. Abalative materials sublimate into gas at high temperature. As a result, they absorb thermal energy but erode away as the vehicle enters the atmosphere. However modern spacecraft are being developed to have re-usable heat shields. The Space Shuttle, in particular, uses a series of thermal insulating tiles that absorb and radiate heat while preventing conduction to the shuttle's aluminum skin. These tiles can be re-used many times.
What is the type of remote sensing imagery best suited to use at night?
Thermal infrared.
What kind of energy does a campfire fireworks and a burning candle all produce?
light and thermal energy
What is the process by which gases in the atmosphere absorb thermal energy and radiate it back to earth called?
the greenhouse effect
What kind of energy does the atmosphere absorb from the ground after the earth absorbs the infrared rays that the ground?
the answer is thermal
Which process is required to allow a gravitationally-collapsing gas cloud to continue to collapse?
The cloud must radiate a lot of its thermal energy.
Radiation transfers thermal energy by?
thermal energy will always radiate to lower energy matter.
What is the term for the measure of thermal energy in the atmosphere?
what is the term for the measure of thermal energy in the atmosphere
What product absorbs thermal energy?
Cold Pack
What process produces the green house effect?
Atmospheric gases, such as watervapor and carbon dioxide, absorb thermal energy and radiate it back toearth. The gases function like the glasswalls and roof of a greenhouse, allowing solar energy to enter and preventing thermal energy from escaping.
What does hygroscopic mean?
It means any substance that readily absorbs moisture, like from the atmosphere. i.e wool goes by this term therefore has thermal qualities when laid as a carpet, in winter it absorbs the moist cold air leaving the atmospere in the room warmer and in summer it actually absorbs up to 30% of the humidity thus leaving it cooler.
What happens to the thermal energy of a substance as its temperature increases?
When a sample of a substance absorbs thermal energy, its temperature rises.
Does the substance become cooler when it absorbs thermal energy?
i think so
Which type of chemical reaction absorbs thermal energy?
Endothermic
What kind of objects radiate heat?
x rays
