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Your bedroom gets direct sunlight through a window during the hottest part of the day. You ask your mom to turn down the thermomstat in the house so your room can cool down. Instead, your mom suggests that you put aluminum foil over the windows. What will the results be if you take your mom's advice?

A. A room cooled by minimizing heat transfer by reflection.
B. A room cooled by minimizing heat transfer by radiation.
C. A room cooled by minimizing heat transfer by convection.
D. A room cooled by minimizing heat transfer by conduction.

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Answer: the room will be cooled by minimizing heat transfer by reflection. The Sun is heating your room by its radiation. The aluminium foil is shiny, so it reflects the Sun's radiation back outside the window.

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Question: Your bedroom gets direct sunlight through a window during the hottest part of the day. What will the results be if you take your mom's advice?

Answer: a room cooled by minimizing heat transfer by reflection

Explanation: this will keep the suns energy heat trapped in the foil and will reflect the light and heat to somewhere else 1 example is when you cook meat you put foil over it to keep the heat trraped inside

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