Then Ben’s hand was hurting really badly from the intense heat transfer from the fire, so he got a fan and turned it on. He put it on his hand for a while, and when it cooled down, he then left it next to the wall to make the house a little but cooler. The hot air got blown elsewhere, into the kitchen, while the cold air was in the living room, where he was watching TV. This is an example of Convection, because there was a cycle going on making the heat go out, and the cold come in.
Ben soon got bored from watching TV, and he wanted to turn it off. Since he lost the remote, he had to get off the couch and turn it off manually. He was a very lazy couch potato, so after he …show more content…
He felt the heat from the sun beating down on him, but the sun was not touching him. “What was going on?” He wondered.
That was a demonstration of radiation. The best way to explain this is by using the sun. The sun gives off electromagnetic waves that we feel as heat, even though we are not touching them. We give off heat, too.
Ben had an extraordinary day. He had no idea that he did, but he just discovered the mysteries of the meaning of heat, and he discovered what were some Insulators and Conductors were.