Methods of Heat transfer

Have you ever wondered how heat gets to you or why you are so hot in
the summer? Or questioned yourself about where does heat come from. The
reason for this is because of heat transfer. It is what maintains human
inhabitance on earth. When energy goes from one place to another it is
called a transformation. Heat transfer is the process when heat moves from
one place to another. Heat transfer comes in three different forms,
conduction, convection and radiation. Each of the three methods of heat
transfer each have there own mode of transfer, whether it is by an object, by
particles or just by electromagnetic waves.

Conduction is the process whereby thermal or heat energy is

transferred directly along a stationary solid material. For example, when a
pot on a stove gets really hot, it is from conduction. The thermal energy or
heat energy from the stove is being transferred to the pot because they are
touching directly. When your on the beach and the sand gets so hot on your
feet. This is conduction because your feet are directly touching the sand.
Those materials like the pot or the sand that are efficient when transferring
heat from place to place are called conductors. Good conductors are usually
things like aluminum, copper or any other metal. Conduction does not always
have to occur in a solid material it also occurs in things like fire or water. In

one of the most popular bible stories, conduction occurred with fire. It was in
the book of Daniel 3:23. Three men were being punished for their belief of
God, so king Nebuchadnezzar put the three of them into a firery furnace.
But these three men, Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego, fell into the midst
of the furnace of blazing fire still tied up., it says. While there were in the
furnace, the fire was touching them directly and burning them, therefore this
is conduction.They continued to pray and worship God in the furnace and
believe it or not, they survived. The purpose of this is not just to learn about
the bible but to teach that conduction radiation and convection are
everywhere.

Convection is yet the second form of heat transfer that we have.

Convection happens when particles with a lot of heat energy move and take
the place of particles with less heat energy. For example when you are
boiling water the particles of hot steam rise and take the place of those with
less heat. As the steam heats and rises it hits colder air and falls back down
and repeats. This cycle is called a convection current. It happens in so many
places. If you look closely, it happens everywhere. Have you ever been
grilling outside and you see the smoke rising into the air from the grill? This
is convection as well. That same smoke from the grill goes through the
convection current. The smoke rises cools and falls. At the cycle of a hot air
balloon it actually occurs to be the same. In the hot air balloon, particles of
the hot air blow up in order to rise, the particles cool, and then they fall.

Lastly we have the the third method, radiation. Radiation from the Sun,
which is more popularly known as sunlight, is a mixture of electromagnetic
waves ranging from infrared to ultraviolet rays. This is the thermal energy
transfer that has physical mode of transfer. We cannot touch it but we feel it.
It transfers heat by electro-magnetic waves rather than with the
use of a a stationary solid object or particles. There is radiation every where
even the bible. For the sons of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness,
until all the nation, that is, the men of war who came out of Egypt, perished
because they did not listen to the voice of the Lord , to whom the Lord had
sworn that He would not let them see the land which the Lord had sworn to
their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey. While the
Israelites were wandering in the desert for so long looking for the promise
land the suns radiation was beaming on them the entire time, every step of
the way

Heat is everywhere and we use and feel it everyday, we could not

survive without it. It is what keeps us alive. We use it to cook, to give energy
to our plants, for warmth in the winter and countless of others things that we
do to perform activities on this earth but what keeps heat present and alive
on this earth is the three different methods of heat transfer. They are
conduction, convection and radiation. Therefore without our three methods
of heat transfer we would not have what we call earth.