Video of SPU students being light

Several of the students spontaneously recognized that when the car cooled off the thermal energy would leave the car but could remain as thermal energy in the surrounding air. Thinking about the IR camera led students to decide that at least some of the energy leaving the car must arrive at the camera as IR. The students were undecided on what form the energy should take when it arrived at the camera.

Hunter was deliberately encouraging students to focus on specific questions which were presented by the energy theater. What form of energy is it that leaves the car and travels to camera? What form does this energy take when it arrives at the camera?

Hunter moved the group quickly passed other questions. What are three mechanisms of thermal energy leaving the car?

Hunter also choose not to focus on some questions. What is the difference between conduction and convection? Does IR leave in all directions, or just toward the camera?