A Dark Object Sitting in Sunlight Gets Warm Or Energy Transferred by Electromagnetic Radiation
Multiple Choice
A dark object sitting in sunlight gets warm. The sun radiates light because it is very hot, much hotter than the object. So should we categorize the radiation that the object receives from the sun as being heat or energy transferred by electromagnetic radiation ? Be prepared to justify your answer with an argument (multiple reasonable arguments are possible) .
A) Heat
B) Energy transfer
C) It depends on how we define the system boundary.
D) It doesn't matter.
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