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Lesson: Chapter 9 — Heat

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Heat radiation

Near a bonfire you feel its warmth, but not by conduction or convection. The heat reaches you another way.

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Figure 9.34 — hands warmed by rays from a fire.

Heat radiation

Heat radiation is heat travelling from a hot object as electromagnetic waves (infrared radiation), with no matter taking part. Radiation needs no medium; conduction and convection need particles.

Heat reaches the Earth from the Sun across about 150 million kilometres of empty space — by radiation. Every hot object gives out heat by radiation.