سوال ۲۲ کنکور ارشد مهندسی مکانیک ۱۴۰۵

PASSAGE 3:

If the Sun is hot—hot enough to severely burn the skin of a person who spends too much time exposed to its rays—then why is it cold in the upper atmosphere? After all, the upper atmosphere is closer to the Sun. And why is it colder still in the empty space above the atmosphere, which is still closer to the Sun? [1] The reason is that in outer space there is no medium for convection, and in the upper atmosphere, where the air molecules are very far apart, there is hardly any medium. How, then, does heat come to the Earth from the Sun? By radiation, which is radically different from conduction or convection. [2]

A great deal of "stuff" travels through the electromagnetic spectrum: radio waves, microwaves for television and radar, infrared light, visible light, x rays and gamma rays. Though the relatively narrow band of visible-light wavelengths is the only part of the spectrum of which people are aware in everyday life, other parts—particularly the infrared and ultraviolet bands—are involved in the heat one feels from the Sun. (Ultraviolet rays, in fact, cause sunburns.) [3]

Heat by means of radiation is not as "other-worldly" as it might seem: in fact, one does not have to point to the Sun for examples of it. Any time an object glows as a result of heat—as for example, in the case of firelight—that is an example of radiation. Some radiation is emitted in the form of visible light, but the heat component is in infrared rays. [4] This also occurs in an incandescent light bulb. In an incandescent bulb, incidentally, much of the energy is lost to the heat of infrared rays, and the efficiency of a fluorescent bulb lies in the fact that it converts what would otherwise be heat into usable light.

22. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?