Heat Transfer

in the Atmosphere
©2008 Norm Ivey
 What is Heat Transfer?
• Heat transfer is the movement of heat
energy from one substance to
another.
 What is Heat Transfer?
• Heat (energy) always moves from a warmer
substance to a cooler substance.

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 What is Heat Transfer?
• Heat will continue to move until
both substances are the same
temperature.

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 What is Heat Transfer?
• The greater the difference in
temperature between the substances,
the faster the heat will transfer.
 What is Heat Transfer?
• There are three types of heat transfer:
– Conduction
– Convection
– Radiation
 E xamples Anti-Examples
• You touch a black • You feel the cold of
car in the summer a winter day
and the heat from because the cold air
the car transfers into transfers into you.
your hand. • Your Coke in a cooler
• A breeze makes you gets cold because the
feel cooler because cold from the ice
the wind transfers moves into the Coke.
heat away from your
body.
 C onduction
• Heat transfer by conduction is the
transfer of heat through direct contact.
 C onduction
• Molecules transfer energy to the
molecules next to them.
 C onduction
• The molecules
do not have
to be the
same
substance.

http://www.theelusivefish.com/articles/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/hot-stove.jpg
Example 1

http://www.vernier.com/caliper/fall07/images/heat_transfer_large.jpg

The metal conducts heat from the cup

of warm water to the cup of cool water.
 Example 2

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Your Coke becomes cold because the heat from the soda
transfers into the ice, not the other way around.
No matter what it feels like,
cold does not transfer into
your body.

What is really happening

here?

Why do you wear heavy

clothes when it’s cold
outside?
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 Radiation
• Heat transfer by radiation is the transfer of
heat through electromagnetic waves.

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 Radiation
• There is no direct contact between the
substances.
 Example 1

Heat from the sun radiates through

empty space to earth.

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 The heat from the campfire transfers
into your marshmallow, giving you a yummy, gooey treat!

(Direct contact between the fire and your marshmallow will ruin it!)

Example 2

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 C onvection
• Heat transfer by convection is the
transfer of heat through the fluid
(liquids and gases) movement of
currents.
 C onvection
• Warm fluids rise, cool down, sink, and
then are warmed again.
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The radiator warms the room by warming the
air around it. Then the warm air transfers heat
to the rest of the room through convection.
 As air above the road warms up, it rises and is replaced by
cooler air, forming a convection current .
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 Conduction
Convection

Radiation

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This picture illustrates all three type of heat transfer.

Can you identify them all?