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Why can't the Sun's heat travel to Earth by convection or conduction?
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∙ 9y ago
Because both of those mechanisms take place in physical material stuff,
of which there isn't any between the sun and the Earth.
Vincent Hilpert
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What can radiation not do that convection and conduction can do?
Since radiation is done by electromagnetic waves, it can travel through space. i.e no matter is required. That way you can heat up objects through space. Or, for example, the earth gets heated by the suns electromagnetic waves.
Transfer of energy from sun to earth?
Of the three types of heat transfer; Conduction, Convection and Radiation - only radiation (or electromagnetic radiation) is received directly from the sun by earth (though it may get converted once it arrives at Earth). This is due to space being a Vacuum, so convection and conduction don't carry the suns energy. Addition: The sun transfers gravitational energy E = -meGMs/r, to the earth.
The suns energy reaches the earth as what type of energy?
radiant
What are the ways that you capture the suns energy on the earth?
by using solar panel..
The suns energy reaches the earth by what type of heat transfer?
Electromagnetic radiation. Light is the best known form of electromagnetic radiation, but the Sun puts out radiation across a wide spectrum of frequencies, from all the down where AM radio is, up through X-rays. Any radiation that gets absorbed (even a little bit) heats up the earth. There is some radiation (infrared) that we can perceive directly with our skin, but others (microwaves and light are two examples) can be absorbed by something, and then re-radiated as heat (or the things that absorbed the radiation get hotter and they heat things around them up by conduction.) But it all starts with some kind of radiation emitted by the sun being absorbed by something here on earth.
Is the suns energy radiant?
Yes. Here's a logical proof: There are three ways to transfer energy from place to place: --Conduction, --Convection, --Radiation. Conduction and convection need a 'medium' ... a substance to conduct or convect through. Radiation doesn't need anything to travel through. There is no medium ... no substance ... in the space between the sun and the earth, but heat and light from the sun reach the earth constantly. Since there is no medium for it to travel through, it can't be getting here by means of conduction or convection. The only possibility is radiation.
Why can't the suns heat reach us by conduction or convection?
because there is no medium, conduction and convection need medium to spread through, they cannot spread through vacuum.
What can radiation not do that convection and conduction can do?
Since radiation is done by electromagnetic waves, it can travel through space. i.e no matter is required. That way you can heat up objects through space. Or, for example, the earth gets heated by the suns electromagnetic waves.
Transfer of energy from sun to earth?
Of the three types of heat transfer; Conduction, Convection and Radiation - only radiation (or electromagnetic radiation) is received directly from the sun by earth (though it may get converted once it arrives at Earth). This is due to space being a Vacuum, so convection and conduction don't carry the suns energy. Addition: The sun transfers gravitational energy E = -meGMs/r, to the earth.
What kind of relationship do radiation conduction and convection have?
they all come and are connected from the sun, they process it through the suns energy.
What is the way the suns energy is absorbed by the earths surface and warms the earth?
the answer is conduction
This is not part of the suns atmosphere?
convection zone.
How does the suns energy reach Earth?
Waves of heat and light, called radiation, travel to earth.
How is the troposphere heated?
The process of the troposphere is that the lower layer (which is this one) is heated by the sun that the heat comes from the upper layers. Also the troposphere is the atmosphere we live in the weather in other words. Which is 0-10km.
What is the process that transfers the suns energy the rest of the way to the suns surface?
radiation carried by convection.
What is the term that refers to the suns energy being trapped in your atmosphere?
convection
What type of energy transport is just below the suns photosphere?
Convection
