GCSE Physics - How Radiation Affects Temperature #72

This video covers:
- The idea that objects can absorb and emit energy in the form of radiation, and that this can affect their temperature
- What determines which type of radiation is emitted
- Wavelength-intensity graphs
- How these principles apply to the entire planet to determine the Earths temperature

Exam board specific info:
AQA - Separate/triple science only
IGCSE Edexcel - Not in your course
Edexcel - Separate/triple science only
OCR 21st Century - Separate/triple science only
OCR Gateway - Separate/triple science only

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[Dimac]

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[descize]

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[Cupcakeloverxx]

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[Nonresponder]

So I'm trying to figure out what quantity of radiation of each type would be harmful. If there was a human sized microwave and someone went in, would they die? Technically all of it's wavelengths are weaker even visible light, so it shouldn't be, but since a microwave uses waters polarity to heat something up and we are 70% water... I'd assume a we'd get too hot to survive, right? And I'm assuming fire is pure infrared radiation, and that is obviously dangerous to us. So since there can been too much of those two, can there be too much radio waves and visible light to the point that it becomes dangerous for us?

[INFINITRxpct]

But... our star is much hotter than a bunsen burner (with a roaring blue flame) yet it is still not hot enough to be blue? Shouldn't our sun be blue instead of white?

[foryou-ftvf]

What do you think I.R. would look like if we could see it? I wonder if you could see Infrared radiation coming off of "room temperature" objects, what would that look like. Would it look like steam coming off of most things (as most things would be at room temperature)? Maybe that question can not be answered. Thank you for this video, helped me a lot to understand what we can see and not see of radiation and in respect to temperature.

[n.u.t]

Thank You for the video!
BUT, for GCSE do you have to know the graph of intensity and wavelength???

[nn-ujiv]

Why is the spectrum shown the wrong way round, Roy G Biv.

[misium]

The color of Bunsen flame goes blue not because of black body radiation.
The flame would have to be 10000k to be blue because of that.

[Ghost-ohvc]

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