Why is a metal bench cooler than a wooden bench?

Question

If both benches are put in the same place at night, and that night was not at all hot.

Answer 1

"When a person touches something in the room, he or she will be at a higher temperature than the object. Heat will flow to the hotter object (the wood or metal). The heat will flow through the wood or metal away from the person’s skin, but at different rates, faster through the metal and slower through wood.

We say then that metal conducts heat better than wood does. The end effect is there is less heat left in the finger where it touches metal than where it touches wood. The nerves in the finger sense the finger is cooler and the metal object seems cooler."

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Cooler Bench Seat

Answer 4

Metals are better conductors of heat, that is they absorb and dissipate heat faster than wood, which is a poor conductor of heat. Given the same set of surroundings, the metal bench would release energy faster.
To answer why both benches are dissipating heat is because of the fact that in unequal heat situations, elements try to get to the same temperature (dont remember the Thermodynamics primicple name), therefore the benches being hotter than the surroundings, try and dissipate heat to the surroundings to come in equilibrium in terms of temperature, but as the metal bench dissipates faster than the wood bench, it is cooler.

Answer 5

The wood bench will hold on to any residual heat it has gathered during the day, the metal one will also hold on to heat but not to the same degree.

Answer 6

What ever trips your trigger, I perfer a wooden bench.

Answer 7

primary school science, wood is a bad conductor of heat