Unit 7 · Energy in Daily LifeThe Radiation Method of Heat Transfer
Words of This Topic
- Radiation: the method by which heat travels with no medium.
- Vacuum: a space with no matter in it, not even air.
- Wave: a disturbance made by vibration that travels and carries energy.
- Vibration: the rapid to and fro movement of an object.
- Medium: the matter that vibrates while energy passes through it.
- Mechanical wave: a wave that needs a medium in order to travel.
- Electromagnetic wave: a wave that travels without any medium.
- Sound wave: an example of a mechanical wave.
- Infrared radiation: the invisible electromagnetic waves that carry heat.
- Heat absorption: the taking in of heat by an object from radiation.
- Heat emission: the giving out of heat by an object as radiation.
- Poor conductor: a material that does not let heat pass through it easily, such as glass.