Conduction, Convection, and Radiation

The three types of heat transfers that are occurring around us are conduction, convection, and radiation. If you take a vacation in the beaches of Hawaii, and when your feet touch the hot sand, your feet get hot. This is called conduction because the heat is transferred through one thing to the other. It is radiation when you are at the beach and you get sunburned.It is radiation because the sun is transferring heat in the form heat waves. An example of convection is when you are cooking food above the stove. The steam is hot so it rises up to the pan to heat the food. Convection is when heat is transferred through air currents.