Radiation

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Radiation from the Sun. Radiation describes any process in which energy emitted by one body travels through a medium or through space, ultimately to be absorbed by another body. Thermal radiation is electromagnetic radiation emitted from the surface of an object which is due to the object's temperature.

Radiation describes any process in which energy emitted by one body travels through a medium or through space, ultimately to be absorbed by another body. Thermal radiation is electromagnetic radiation emitted from the surface of an object which is due to the object's temperature.

[edit] Also see

• Temperature
• Convection
• Heat transfer
• Atmospheric convection
• Conduction

[edit] Reference

1. See Wikipedia Thermal radiation [1]
2. See Wikipedia Radiation [2]

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