What are examples of heat transfers in our everyday lives?
There is virtually not a thing you see in everyday life that doesn’t experience some sort of heat transfer, whether small or large. Heat has transferred in the 3 means, and we utilize these means for our own purposes. In addition, many phenomena of everyday life is a function of heat transfer (e.g. wind is caused by the heating of the Earth’s surface by radiation and convection/conduction). I also feel it is important to note that convection is really just a form of conduction; in convection, the heat is still conducted through molecules. I’ll give you a couple examples of heat transfer that you will find in everyday life. Convection/conduction – look at any electronic hardware, and you will most likely find some sort of fins somewhere (they are also present in those large electronic enclosures you see around towns). There are typically many of them evenly separated so the heat produced from electronics can be passed along these fins and passed out into the surrounding environment. In
