Energy transfer is the transfer of energy from one object or material to another.
There are a few main ways that energy transfer occurs:
- Radiant energy (radiation)
- Heat conduction (travelling heat)
- Convection (currents of warm air)
- Electrical power transmission
- Mechanical work (machines)
Famous quotes containing the words energy and/or transfer:
“Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.”
—Germaine Greer (b. 1939)
“No sociologist ... should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time. One cannot with impunity try to transfer this task entirely to mechanical assistants if one wishes to figure something, even though the final result is often small indeed.”
—Max Weber (1864–1920)