As a cook you hold place a metal pan(with a wooden handle attached to it) on top a hot flame and then notice that you cannot touch the metal pan but you can still touch the wooden handle. Explain using your knowledge of physics how this is possible?

As a cook you hold place a metal pan(with a wooden handle attached to it) on top a hot flame and then notice that you cannot touch the metal pan but you can still touch the wooden handle. Explain using your knowledge of physics how this is possible?

Glencoe Physics: Principles and Problems, Student Edition

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Author:Paul W. Zitzewitz

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Chapter12: Thermal Energy

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 41A

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