P2 Energy transfer by heating

• black body radiation


  the radiation emitted by a perfect black body (a body that absorbs all the radiation that hits it)
• infrared radiation

  electromagnetic waves between visible light and microwaves in the electromagnetic spectrum
• specific heat capacity

  energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 kg of a substance by 1 °C
• thermal conductivity

  property of a material that determines the energy transfer through it by conduction