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Mechanical Engineering · Q16

Heat And Mass Transfer

Engineering and GATE · Mechanical Engineering · question 16

Q16

When heat is transferred from hot body to cold body, in a straight line, without affecting the intervening medium, it is referred as heat transfer by

A.
Conduction
B.
Convection
C.
Radiation
Answer
D.
Conduction and convection

Answer: Option C

Solution

Answer: Option C
Solution:
Thermal radiation generates from the emission of electromagnetic waves. These waves carry the energy away from the emitting object. Radiation occurs through a vacuum or any transparent medium (either solid or fluid). Thermal radiation is the direct result of random movements of atoms and molecules in matter.