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Chapter 6: Heat Transfer
1. Why This Matters
Have you ever touched a metal spoon left in a hot pot and pulled your hand back quickly? Or wondered why a wooden spoon stays cool in the same pot? Have you felt the warmth of the sun on your face, or the chill of a cold floor on your bare feet? All of these are stories about heat transfer.
Heat is energy on the move. It always flows from a hotter place to a colder place, and it does so in three main ways: conduction, convection, and radiation. U