When you hold a cup of hot coffee, can the heat transfered to your hand be though of as a type of resonance?

Question

yeh i know its conduction, but is the conduction kind of resonance

Answer 1

In Macro-scopic terms, NO.
Resonance is related to an oscillation (frequency).
A hot cup of coffee has a certain termperature, that will cool down according to one of Newton's cooling theories, but basically will lose heat (and therefore the temperature will decrease) until is obtains the same temperature as its environment. There will be no oscillation, therefore the phenomenon is not a type of resonance.

In Micro-scopic terms, YES.
Heat transfer (temperature variation) is carried out by three means:
- conduction (particle excitation, these particles "vibrate" and therefore there is a sort of resonance in function of their energy state)
- convection (ditto, sort of)
- radiation (heat transfer by electromagnetic radiation, so frequency and thus a type of resonance will occur).

Yes and No then.

Answer 2

You seem to be already well versed with conduction so I will not spend time on it.

Resonance occurs at a particular frequency called the resonance frequency. At this particular frequency, there is a sudden surge/increase in whatever it is u r dealing with.

When u hold a hot cup, the sensation you feel depends on the temperature of the cup. In my own experience, Ive never noticed any sudden increase in sensation which I would call resonance.

The bottom line is that I do not think heat transfer is a type of resonance.

Answer 3

Its conduction the passing of energy from one molecule to another. This energy can be seen as a vibration of the molecules and atoms. Resonance is an oscillation at high frequency and as The heat will be eventually evenly distributed it will not oscillate, therefore no heat cannot be seen as a type of resonance

Answer 4

Resonant energy transfer occurs when one system excites a resonant frequency in another. Thermal energy consists of random vibrations of the atoms of the material. If you could graph all the vibrational frequencies, you would see a broad statistical distribution. If there were resonant transfer occurring, you'd see a peak at the resonant frequency. Heat transfer is not resonant because the vibrations are random.

Answer 5

I dont think the same equal temperature of heat will be transfered instantly. As the Law of Heat transfer states, the heat transfers from a higher concentration to a lower concentration.Thus, once heat flows, it will flow continously and it wont stay stagnant making it impossible to accumulate heat as hot as it was in the original temperature.. and this happen in a very fraction of a second...

Answer 6

mostly conductive energy, some radiative

Answer 7

yes

Answer 8

no it is conduction