• Question: what creates conduction?

    Asked by sebisepic to Jen, Jill, Mel, Phil, Stef on 19 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Stefan Piatek

      Stefan Piatek answered on 19 Mar 2013:

      If you imagine that a material is made up of small beads. When they get hot, the beads vibrate and this is the heat! So if you heat one end, the beads will vibrate and then cause the ones next to them to vibrate, that’s the heat transfer as conduction.

      Is that the type of conduction you wanted to know about?

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