alleryStart learning →You hold your hand beside a campfire, not above it, and feel warmth. This warmth mostly arrives by:
Aconduction
Bconvection
Cradiation
Devaporation
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. radiation
Hot air rises straight up, so heat reaching a hand at the side is mainly radiation travelling directly from the flames.
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